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Lewis Kokeny, mild-mannered deputy president of the Hungarian branch of the movement, made a keynote speech with a curious iron-curtain slant. Said he: "We modern Esperantists do not concern ourselves any more with the old idea of corresponding in Esperanto with people in faraway places . . . That was an oldfashioned, romantic idea . . . Our immediate neighbors are what count." Western Esperantists, he admitted, still believe that their language should remain "politically neutral." On this point Kokeny was firm. "Here we are convinced that Esperanto must cooperate with progress and that neutrality is not possible...
...Hungarians are especially interested in Esperanto because their language is so far removed from any other, except Finnish and Estonian. Only two words derived from the Hungarian -goulash and coach-are in common use in English...
...Picture, That Lady in Ermine, presents Betty as an Italian countess (she is also an ancestress who conies down from her portrait on the castle wall-but no matter, it is only Betty again). She is struggling to save her domain from the grip of a handsome Hungarian hussar (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). "It wasn't exactly down my alley," Betty confesses, "and it looked as if it might have been pretty hard for me to do." But the late Ernst Lubitsch, the director whose magic made exquisite comedy of Jeanette MacDonald's look of bovine bewilderment in such...
...what I'll do to that wild Hungarian...
...certainly no Lubitsch trick that the lush countess, who at one point considers planting a dagger in her Hungarian's back, ends by dragging him briskly off to say "I do" to a priest, while snowflakes flutter past the window. The "nice-kid-after-all" formula is what the Grable public loves, and that is what it gets...