New Play in Manhattan

Miracle in the Mountains (translated and revised from the Hungarian of Ferenc Molnar; produced by Archer King & Harrison Woodhull) met an unusual fate for a Molnar play: it opened one night on Broadway, closed the next. The astonishing thing was that it opened at all. For in Miracle in the Mountains, the author of Liliom and The Play's the Thing seemed to forget everything he had ever learned in the theater; his wit was all wooziness, his lithe Continental fingers were all thumbs.

Actually, he had chosen the exalted theme of faith v. reason. But he had squandered it on foolish, mawkish melodrama about a servant girl (Julie Haydon) and a stranger who restores the dead to life. What Molnar meant for a miracle looked like a god from the machine.

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