Word: molnar
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...Grand Duchess and the Waiter. Elsie Ferguson's appearance is always of extraordinary interest. Last year she did Molnar's Carnival and saw it fail promptly...
...GUARDSMAN?A light comedy by Molnar, perfected by the performance of Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, tries to decide whether an actor can be good enough to seduce his own wife...
...GUARDSMAN−Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne and the Theatre Guild cast cooperate to make a slender Molnar comedy of off-stage actor life a distinguished entertainment...
...most consummate pieces of pantomime that has ever enriched the cinema. He starts down to breakfast, falls in love with a charming proletarian whom he meets in the hall, lets the Princess to whom he is engaged marry her brother's tutor. To Franz Molnar, author, $50,000 was paid for screen rights - a graceful benevolence, since Molnar could not by any chance detect in the cinema so much as a plagiarism of his play (The Swan, reviewed in TIME, Nov. 5, 1923). For in the play there was no fly, no impolite story, no charming proletarian...
These are the trivial faults, if indeed they can be called such, but all are inconspicuous enough in the sum total of the play. Molnar begins with satire, becomes interested in his characters, and then adds the inevitable conclusion. Whatever his mood, he is always graceful, always deft, and almost always sincere...