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...Swan. One of those rare and treasured experiences that more than justifies even a season that can tolerate the tawdriness of Red Light Annie and Abie's Irish Rose is The Swan by Franz Molnar. So fine it is that its torch advances immediately to the van of these 50 fitful flames of drama winking at each other across the New York night. Such plays as this give playwrights actors, directors stuff to dream on. It is a castle in Spain, captive and come abroad to display its graces to a murmuring world...
...plot of The Swan is not original. It tells of a beautiful (modern) princess in love with a handsome tutor; of a prince who would marry and make her his queen; of the ancient axiom that there is no royal road to happiness. Yet the very venerability of this plot in its application to the play betokens the master artificer. For only meticulous meditation long after one has left the playhouse discloses the deception. Such deception is admissible; indeed it is a privileged stratagem of genius...
...Swan. Many Americans consider Liliom the greatest play to reach our shores in many years. The Swan is by the same author, Franz Molnar. In Europe it is almost sacrilege to mention them in the same breath. The latter is considered incomparably his masterpiece. Eva Le Gallienne will play the lead...
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MERTON OF THE MOVIES ? From the duckpond of Simsbury, Ill., Merton Gill (Glenn Hunter), unsophisticated duckling, takes flight to Hollywood, imagining he is a swan. The dream collapses, but the duckling succeeds in an hilarious parody of other waddlers...