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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marshal. "Accidentally" shot by the host whose wife he has seduced, an actor reveals the attempted jealousy murder. The wife, to save the husband, denies her love though her actor is apparently dying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Lawyer. While robbing the Sarkany apartment, an urbane thief who happens to be Lawyer Sarkany's best friend and client, surprises the lawyer's wife with her lover, a rustic police lieutenant. Gallic, comic complications ensue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

Liliom, a Budapest barker about to become a father, gets trapped holding up a cashier, commits suicide. Years later, returning to do a good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife's dumb agony, over the pair's never-mentioned love. Philosopher Liliom: "Nobody's right?but they all think they are. A lot they know...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...Guardsman. To catch his actress-wife in an infidelity, an actor-husband masquerades as a Russian guardsman, woos her in disguise. Later she says she recognized he was acting, acted herself. The question...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hungary's Molnar | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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