Word: molnar
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...Ferene Molnar apparently takes issue with Ford Madox Ford in the latter's dictum that "New York Is Not America." Back in that dear Budapest after a whirlwind visit to Broadway and environs the playwright says that there is but one wonder in the world and that is the city of New York...
...Molnar is as wise as he is witty: he makes no attempt to placate any other section of the country besides the one which best appreciates his wares. For every dramatist there is but one wonder in the world and that wonder is the same as Molnar's. Who cares, theatrically speaking, about those wastes outside of the metropolis? And why should a visiting playwright penetrate further into America than is necessary for his business? If he is accepted by the chief Rialto he will be accepted by the hundred imitations...
...Molnar. The sleepy celebrity, the one with a monocle on the right side of his plump face, the self indulgent one who sat silent at formal dinners but roistered about Manhattan with his friends?that one was Ferenc Molnar...
...Molnar the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow is an old, jaded story, and the fleshpot an older. His successive wives have meant much to him, but so have the enormous slumbers and epicurean dinners which he loves. His selfishness is not the mystic ego culture of Count Keyserling but something earthy, practical...
...positions that of stage manager in the exciting production of Eugene O'Neill's play, "The Great God Brown." During the past summer as one of the three American representatives at the conference of dramatic critics at Salzburk Professor Packard was able to associate intimately with Max Reinhardt, Ferenc Molnar and many others among the leading producers and playwrights of the European stage. With this immense and varied background he will be in such a position as few of those experimenters and students of the human voice have previously enjoyed...