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...When Hungarian-born Zsa Zsa Gabor refused to co-star with her husband Cinemactor George Sanders on the Tallulah Bankhead radio show (because the lines "would have made my marriage look ridiculous"), Sanders took the afternoon off to pack his bags and leave his Hollywood home. Said he: "My wife asked me to get out, and I am in the process of doing so. I have been discarded like a squeezed lemon." For reporters covering the spat, Zsa Zsa (rhymes with maharajah) had a simple statement: "A woman has the right to quarrel with her husband in the afternoon because...
...instruments survived, and one 130-year-old copy turned up at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week in the hands of Musician Francis Lantos, a Hungarian-born refugee. Lantos' countryman, Composer Tibor Serly (who deciphered and scored Bartok's famed Viola Concerto), had written his plaintive Chamber Folk Music for violin, piano and tarogato in 1948, but until recently had found no one who could make the instrument sing. Lantos, who broadcasts over
...Salzburg, Austria, a sickly, frightened Hungarian girl named Ilonka Nagy, 18, told her story...
...pregnant girls. The girls kept the children in the house till they were about five. After that, the children were put in the state school. It was a big thing to have a baby. They told us it was a work for peace. When the Imperialists killed a Hungarian in the next war, one of our children would be there to take his place...
...year-old stage number that was long too hot for Europe got its U.S. premiere in Manhattan last week, and hardly anybody raised an eyebrow. The work: a nightmarish ballet fantasy entitled The Miraculous Mandarin, set to the 1919 music of Hungarian Bela Bartok. Its main characters: a prostitute and a Chinese mandarin whose love for her is stronger than death...