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Carousel (20th Century-Fox). In the years between the wars, European audiences licked their lips over Liliom, the play by Ferenc Molnar. What they liked about its flavor was the salt. U.S. theater goers did the same over Carousel, the musical that Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein made from the play in 1945, but what they liked about its flavor was the sugar-the pretty pink icing of the plot, and most of all the sunny flowing honey of the lovely Rodgers tunes. The melodies have all their clovered freshness still, but if film fans lick their lips over anything...
...week's best prospect was Ferenc Molnar's The Good Fairy, produced by Maurice Evans on Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). For a while it looked as if three expert players could bring off the tender, sophisticated, 25-year-old Hungarian fantasy about a "little glowworm" usherette (Julie Harris) who wants to be a good fairy to a highly moral but impoverished lawyer (Walter Slezak), is pursued by an immensely wealthy but engagingly unethical Lothario (Cyril Ritchard), and winds up in the arms of her own true love. But in a quarter of a century...
Hallmark Hall of Fame (Sun. 4 p.m., NBC). Maurice Evans presents Ferenc Molnar's The Good Fairy, starring Julie Harris, Walter Slezak...
Your story on Herman Wouk and his blast against the irresponsibility of the intellectual could well be pointed up by Thomas Molnar's analysis of the rejection by the masses of the intellectual [Sept. 5]. Wouk's espousal of the family unit as a stabilizing force, and his recognition of man as primarily a creature of God, is in contrast to what Molnar calls the "rootlessness" of the intellectual. The American public may be uncultured, but they know the basic facts of life...
Squeezed-Out Hero. "The 'socially integrated' intellectual is really not an intellectual at all, but an expert servant," says Molnar. "For if Western society has suffered a single great loss in the last hundred years, it is the principle of authority, and it is questionable whether the single great gain during the same period, the conquest of science, can make...