George Halasz was a theatrical critic for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, under the column, The Curtain Rises. Additionally, he wrote features for Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the Saturday review of Literature. In 1935 Halasz moved to Hollywood and became a script reader and writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and other studios. The collection consists of four scrapbooks containing published articles written by Halasz.

George Halasz was born in Hungary. He came to the United States in 1921 and was theatrical critic for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, under the column, The Curtain Rises. Additionally, he wrote for Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and the Saturday review of Literature. He became a translator of the plays of Hungarian writer, Ferenc Molnar and also wrote an unpublished biography about the playwright. In 1935 Halasz moved to Hollywood and became a script reader and writer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and other studios. In 1955 he opened the Mercury Book Store in Beverly Hills specializing in psychoanalytic literature. He died in Los Angeles in June, 1990.

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