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...Pressburg, last week, judges sat in solemn conclave over nervous ascetic Professor Bela Tuka, famed savant, charged with high treason. Specific treason: attempting to carve Slovakia out of Czechoslovakia. Despite the fact that an alleged Hungarian spy, Anton Mras, swore loudly that his original testimony against Professor Tuka was false, Bela Tuka was sentenced to 15 years in penal servitude...
Last week, a certain Bela Blau of Manhattan announced the formation of a theatrical corporation, temporarily called Bela Blau, Inc., which is substantial financially and in personnel. Next season the deliberate production of two or three plays is contemplated. If they are successful, a subscription system will be instituted. Out of a projected capitalization of $150,000, more than $100,000 has been raised. Plays are being read, actors interviewed...
...Goat Song and Androcles and the Lion were two of his assignments. He has been a consultant and lecturer (Columbia University) on theatrical business problems. Now, in proof of his economic prowess, he has furnished his new offices with one month's interest from the capital collected for Bela Blau, Inc. Members of his board of directors in clude Langdon Post, New York State Assemblyman, onetime cinema critic (New York Evening World), sponsor of a bill to protect actors against the humiliation of arrest for appearance in plays adjudged immoral; Josephine Forrestal, experienced play reader; Manhattan Bankers Alonzo Potter...
...program is announced as follows: Sonata Written in 1774 Mozart Woodland Sketches McDowell (a) To a Wild Rose (b) From Uncle Remus (c) From an Indian Lodge The Music Box Ludow Intermission Rumanian Folk-Dances Bela-Bartok Marche des Pettits Soldats de Plomb Pierne Fantasie from the Opera "Johnny Spielt Auf" Kvenek
...notorious international seditionist and Communist spy, Bela Kun, onetime Soviet Dictator of Hungary (for 143 days in 1919) was deported from Austria, last week, in an airplane which soared across Germany and made connections with a steamer for Russia...