Egy, kettő, három : Vígjáték egy felvonásban by Ferenc Molnár
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"Egy, kettő, három" by Ferenc Molnár is a one-act stage comedy written in the early 20th century. The play satirizes high finance, social climbing, and the manufacture of respectability as a domineering banker, Norrison, races to transform his ward Lydia’s secret taxi-driver husband, Antal, into an acceptable son-in-law before her magnate parents appear. Expect rapid-fire orders, door-slamming farce, and a sharp poke at power and propriety. The opening of the play finds
Norrison in his grand office, about to depart on holiday, when Lydia arrives early with a telegram: her parents are arriving within the hour, and she reveals she secretly married Antal and is expecting a child. To avert scandal and protect a vital deal with her American industrialist father, Norrison mobilizes his entire apparatus, issuing a blizzard of calls and commands: new wardrobe and grooming, club applications, hotel suites, St. Moritz tickets, a medical certificate to quit the taxi job, even a hasty aristocratic adoption to give Antal a noble name. Board members are corralled to install him as a factory director, while a feverish lawyer, a precise doctor, a flustered tailor, and devoted secretaries keep the machine humming. As phones ring and papers fly, Antal is shaved, suited, renamed, and drilled under Lydia’s fierce encouragement, the scene whirling toward the parents’ imminent arrival. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Molnár, Ferenc, 1878-1952 |
|---|---|
| Title | Egy, kettő, három : Vígjáték egy felvonásban |
| Original Publication | Budapest: Franklin-Társulat, 1929. |
| Credits | Albert László from page images generously made available by the Hungarian Electronic Library |
| Language | Hungarian |
| LoC Class | PH: Language and Literatures: Finno-Ugrian and Basque languages and literatures |
| Subject | Comedy plays |
| Subject | One-act plays |
| Subject | Hungarian drama -- 20th century |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 77489 |
| Release Date | Dec 17, 2025 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 215 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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