Word: budapester
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...simple and disarming charm which is likely to prove valuable at the boxoffice. A delicate and sympathetic, if somewhat disingenuous, reflection of the funny side of the Depression, it rates high in the scale of recreation-ground cinema, well above Central Park, a small notch below Zoo in Budapest. Good shot: a zoo attendant (Stepin Fetchit) advertising to the furniture dealer the excellence of the meat he feeds the lions...
...Viktor Barna, spry and handsome ping-pong player of Budapest: the world's championship, for the fifth year; after a close match against his clumsier countryman, Miklos Szabados, who injured his right hand by falling; in London. C. Glenn Cunningham, famed Kansas runner: the Baxter Mile, feature event of the annual New York Athletic Club indoor track meet; in 4.09.8, with his two onetime rivals, Gene Venzke and Bill Bonthron, 30 and 40 yards behind; in Manhattan...
...Budapest, Count Edmond Zichy of aristocratic lineage challenged 13 members of a swank sporting club to duels. Reason: they had expelled his wife. Reason: they had caught her in a game of rummy marking the joker by scraping her hennaed fingernail across...
...Good Fairy (Universal). The ambition to be what she calls "a good fairy" is aroused in Luisa Ginglebusher (Margaret Sullavan) by an astonishing sequence of events. On the day that she is released from a Budapest orphanage, a friendly waiter (Reginald Owen) promises to smuggle her into a ball. At the ball, she meets an amorous plutocrat (Frank Morgan) whose fluttery advances she stalls off only by saying she is married. When Herr Konrad promises to make her husband immediately and fantastically rich, Luisa realizes her golden opportunity. She seizes a telephone book, mumbles an incantation, shuts her eyes...
...little man who followed Perry to the ping-pong title presents an interesting contrast. Small, pale and agile, with a striking facial resemblance to Cinemactor Richard Dix, Viktor Gyözö ("Viki") Barna was brought up in Budapest, played real tennis as a child, gave it up when he got a table tennis set on his 13th birthday...