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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Delicate Story (by Ferenc Molnar. produced by Gilbert Miller & Vinton Freedley). The famous Hungarian playwright-refugee Ferenc Molnar (Liliom, The Swan, The Guardsman) apparently has not been too depressed by a world at war. Nowadays he spends much of his time in Manhattan's Plaza Hotel bar, and he has not lost his Continental knack of getting amusement out of the idea of cuckoldry. He is amused by it in Delicate Story. which is so delicate that it almost - but not quite - wastes away. The wife of a Swiss delicatessen-keeper takes a shine to a young man about...
Seven Little Balkans. It was not long in beginning. German SS men have circulated freely in Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria recently on the pretext that they were directing the rehabilitation of Germans returning to the Fatherland. Last week in Hungary the Arrow Cross Party of Naziphile Ferenc Szalesi presented to Premier Count Paul Teleki a demand for a voice in the Government, which was a sure preliminary to the Nazification of the country and a probable invitation to the German Army. Hungary is the first station on the Drang nach Östen...
...Hungary has had "Big Führer" Ferenc Szalasi, of the Hungarian National Socialists, in jail for two years, but still at large was Szalasi's No. 2 man, Kálmán Hubay. Since the leader's incarceration Hungary's Green Shirts have changed their greeting from "Heil Szalasi!" to "Kitartás!" ("Hold...
Liliom (by Ferenc Molnar; produced by Vinton Freedley) is still a charming play. Time has done very little to harm it-far less, certainly, than Producer Freedley...
...Shop Around the Corner (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) picturizes one of those completely unimportant, highly entertaining, expertly carpentered Hungarian plays which Ferenc Molnar used to turn out by the dozen, which Hollywood does better than it does almost anything else and which Ernst Lubitsch does better than anybody else in Hollywood. Producer-Director Lubitsch, riding high again as a result of his success with Ninotchka, calls this one "a miniature Grand Hotel." But this time the improbable goings-on concern the paternal boss and clerks in the Budapest leather-goods shop of Matuschek (rhymes with hat-to-check...