| Delilah (or, "Delila" in Hungarian) was Molnár's final play to be written and staged in Budapest in 1937 before he fled his native Hungary to avoid being persecuted for being of Jewish heritage, prior to the onslaught of WWII. Christian Heppinstall revived this delightful romantic comedy about a gold-digging waitress and her boss who wins the Lotto almost a half century later when he stage directed it for the Karinthy Theatre of Budapest. It delighted Budapest audiences for nearly two years. Heppinstall wrote of this production and other bits of Molnár's life in New York exile in an article for Hungary's monthly theater journal--Színház (click here for the article in Hungarian). Molnár died in New York in 1952. |  |
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