Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 7, 1931

Theatre

The Good Fairy. After samples of how inept Viennese comedy can be (I Love An Actress, A Church Mouse), the season has at last afforded the genuine article by the maestro who holds the controlling interest in that branch of contemporary drama —Ferenc Molnar.

In The Good Fairy, Lu (Helen Hayes) describes herself as ''an unemployed glow-worm," which means that she is a cinemansion usheress out of work. She meets a rich industrialist who wants her for his mistress. Spectators are asked to believe that Lu likes the idea largely because she will...

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