Word: hungarian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While U. S. audiences are likely to doubt whether Folies Bergere, derived from a minor Hungarian play called The Red Cat (TIME, Oct. 1), justified such elaborate preparations, they are likely to find it an agreeable and handsomely arranged example of its type. Between the big "production numbers" at the start and finish, it sandwiches in a brisk little backstage-&-bedroom farce based on the resemblance of a song-&-dance man in the "Folies Bergere" to a celebrated financier...
Under the baton of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, the Pierian Sodality will give a concert Sunday evening at 8 o'clock in Longwood Towers, Brookline. The program will consist of the following selections: "Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major" by Bach; Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony"; "Hungarian Dance No. 5" by Brahms; "Three Rumanian Folk Dances" by Bartok; "Allegrette" from Beethoven's Seventh Symphony; and "Malaguena" by Lecuona...
Brahms' chance came when a popular gypsy violinist visited Hamburg and suddenly needed an accompanist. The gypsy taught Brahms to love Hungarian dances. He introduced him to Joachim who paved the way to the famed friendship with Robert and Clara Schumann. Robert Schumann, one of the great influences of his day, preached Brahms' genius far and wide. Clara Schumann is supposed to have been Brahms' lifelong love, the inspiration of his tenderest songs. He never married...
Louis Kiss, a Hungarian silk painter by trade, but a bootlegger on the side, recalled getting lost in The Bronx on March 1, 1932, wandering into the Fredericksen restaurant, seeing Hauptmann with a dog. A big, ragged man named Luther Harding swore he saw two men in a car with a ladder near the Lindbergh home on the afternoon of March 1, that neither was Hauptmann. He had turned his information over to the police next day, he said. When asked to pick out the officer he had talked to, Harding picked the wrong one. It was then revealed that...
...Grand Elector Max has succeeded in creating Danubia out of Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia. Upon an economic stage set with starvation wages and rock-bottom farm prices steps a new Messiah. He is Johann Zimri, son of a Hungarian plumber who combines a knowledge of psychotherapy and osteopathy with the perfect bedside manner. Scores take to his simple belief that a little of God is in every man. With this magic, Zimri wins over an important industrialist, the Danubia youth movement, a onetime mistress of the Grand Elector, a leading journalist. In spite of this backing, the Messiah...