Word: bela
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Proudly in the front rank of contemporary composers stands Bela Bartók, Hungarian. Symphonophiles the world over know him for a revolutionist, remember his music for its brutality, its stark rhythms. Last week he made his U. S. debut with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra-and a great audience was surprised.* They had expected a bulky, grim-jawed man with personality to match. Instead they saw a frail little person scoot shyly around the orchestra's first-string men and bow his way almost meekly to the piano set out for him. They had expected to hear...
...ladies of stern, middle age, their skirts at pre-War length, their manners suggesting not at all the imaginary "free-love" conditions pretended to exist in Russia. Second in authority was Comrade Eugen Varga, a Hungarian, one-time chief adviser to the ousted Soviet dictator of Hungary, fat, spiderlike Bela Kun (dictator...
...Egyptians, as their ancient reliefs attest, valued the brave and loyal, but somewhat obstinate dachshund.* Last week, near Semmering, famed Austrian winter sports centre, Printz, the pet dachshund of Count Bela Széchényi, upheld the tradition of his breed...
...Budapest, Bela Morvay, clown, put mad new touches upon his old familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...
This status quo was established by the Hungarian Parliament, after Hungary had suffered as the "Republic" of which Count Karolyi was President (Nov. 1918 to March, 1919) and endured the "Soviet Government" of Bela Kun (March...