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...Theatre Guild decided to produce Ferenc Molnar's The Guardsman. Its chief characters were a married actor and actress, its theme a test of fidelity. The Guild's canny Theresa Helburn saw the piquant possibilities of casting a happily-married stage couple in the parts. The tremendous success of The Guardsman led to 14 more such pairings. The Lunts are now known throughout the U. S. as the leading Mr. and Mrs. of the theatre...
Brilliantly adapted by Jo Swerling from a play by Ferenc Molnar, played up to the hubcaps by cinema's most famed comedy couple and high-class supporters, Double Wedding is a 100% sample of the haywire school. Its only flaw is that, with Hollywood's destructive knack for stylizing all its gestures, the technique of haywire comedy has reached a monotonous perfection. After two screwy characters have been established as potential sweethearts and their lives thoroughly scrambled with another couple's, the main element of suspense is what kind of melee the plot can wind...
...rest of her anatomy was occupied in carnal misbehavior (TIME, Aug. 27, 1934, et seq.). Last week the Fascist Party's special prize for "the most artistic" foreign film of the year went to Columbia Pictures' No Greater Glory (TIME, April 23, 1934). Adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel (The Paul Street Boys) about the warfare of two children's gangs for possession of a vacant lot which municipal authorities eventually take away from both, the cinema is a brilliant allegory suggesting that war is childish, futile and unpardonable...
...scarlet woman, is less notable as an evening's entertainment than as a record-breaker for failure. Once called A Trip to Pressburg and again The Face at the Window, it was written by Leo Perutz and produced by Max Reinhardt in Vienna in 1931 with Mrs. Ferenc Molnar as the leading lady. Three U. S. producers held rights to the show before the Shuberts had Harry Wagstaff Gribble revise it for presentation in Philadelphia in March 1933. The show failed. Next revisionists were Philip Dunning (Broadway) and Harold Johnsrud, whose version opened in Pittsburgh in November 1933 with...
...janitor and prefers to mistreat his mistress while she supports him, Boyer supplies precisely that mixture of cruelty and innocence which is required to make Liliom a sympathetic character. Director Lang's treatment of the story brings out the quality of rueful fantasy which Author Molnar put into the play and which was so notably absent from the U. S. screen version in which Charles Farrell appeared (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). Characteristically imaginative is Lang's use of puppets-usually a detriment to any cinema-in the interlude which shows Liliom, after feebly attempting to commit first robbery...