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Adapted from FERENC MOLNAR by P.G. WODEHOUSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tipsy Pirandello | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

Hungarian-born Playwright Ferenc Molnar (1878-1952) graced that happy time with many an urbane trifle. The Play's The Thing is a choice example...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tipsy Pirandello | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...through of that play with in the play gives Molnar's own a rousingly hilarious third act, call it tipsy Pirandello. He gets a very able assist from the daffy humor of P.G. Wodehouse's adaptation. Earlier on, The Play's the Thing is not always spirited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Tipsy Pirandello | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...were intellectually shabby to boot. Carl Friedrich, then an assistants professor, assured Harvard that Fascism would never, take hold in Germany: "German Professor Certain that Article 48 will Prevent a German Mussolini." The Dean of Radcliffe refused to allow her students to take part in a Harvard production of Molnar's "Olympia", "the worst play she had ever read." An editorial criticizing the drunken carryings-on of the American Legion convention in Boston brought the wrath of a nation--and scattered applause--on the paper, And, the editors announced. "The Crimson is now prepared to offer a 16 hour film...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crimson Enters the 30s and the Depressions | 1/24/1973 | See Source »

...says, "How on earth can you make emotion travel down a string!" The mannerisms of voice and style and the personalities of the five Standwells are all clearly delineated. Their individual quirks of voice, accent and mannerism permeate whatever characters they portray. Whether portraying a cocotte in a worldly Molnar one-act or chanting a lovelorn ballad in a piece by Jane and Paul Bowles, nobody can flounce quite like Mile. Garonce. Isabelle's gentility never wavers-not even when Sicnarf tries to teach her to play a boogie-woogie bass at a family musicale or when someone makes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Mini Music Hall | 1/4/1971 | See Source »

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