Word: molnar
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Devil, glib, cynical, disguised as a man, adroitly diminishes the distance between two who love, an artist and a banker's wife. With this farce Producer Henry W. Savage introduced Molnar...
...smart rulers, to destroy the good in man, invent a sin-mill. Through it goes Janos, model man. At the last moment the one good act he does makes the machine explode. The act: forgiveness of the charming sin-woman, Mima (in the U. S., Lenore Ulric). Says Molnar: "The machine itself is nothing more than a visible combination of our machine world and the psychological grind...
...Significance. Unlike England's Shaw satirizing human institutions, Hungary's Molnar satirizes human emotions. Since institutions change while human nature does not, lyric Molnar will probably "date" less than pedantic Shaw when later generations take an accounting. Like Shaw, like any playwright with broad genius, Molnar is interested in and can handle all manner of people?slaveys, socialites, policemen, princes?not for what they stand for but as kinds of people underneath. For the proud of this world he has a pathos of precision, for the humble, a tender irony, ridicule softened by tears. His many-mooded plays abound...
Inanimate objects, too?hand-organs, opera-cloaks, acacia-blossoms?the rare Molnar dramaturgy makes almost articulate. Much is said about the Molnar technique?brilliant, original. In The Play's the Thing the curtain rises on characters discussing the best way to begin a play. In Mima he builds up his climax by repeating a scene three times. In both these plays, in most of Molnar, there are several planes of reality, arranged provocatively and with an eye to permanence...
Anecdotes about Molnar are as innumerable and revealing as those about Anatole France. Here...