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Born. To Rise (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 31, svelte contralto of the Metropolitan Opera and first American in 22 years to sing the exacting role of Philistine Temptress Delilah (in Samson and Delilah); and Walter Szurovy, 33, Hungarian stage and screen actor: their first child, a son; in Hollywood. Name: Nicolas Vincent. Weight...
...This announcement has shocked all men and women who cherish a sense of justice and of human sympathy. It is in direct contradiction of the doctrines of the Catholic Faith professed by the vast majority of the Hungarian people. It is a negation of the noblest pages of Hungarian history and cultural tradition...
Samuel Untermyer, millionaire lawyer, politico, orchid fancier, who died in 1940, was revealed in an executor's account to have set up a $30,000-a-year trust fund for his "very dear friend," Mrs. Marguerite Herczeg, widow of a Hungarian nobleman. Mrs. Herczeg was "astonished to learn the secret...
...from Gangdom. Hungarian-born Eugene Ormandy is the only important U.S. conductor who ever climbed from the pit of a Broadway movie house. The climb began in 1920 when Ormandy, then a moderately gifted European concert violinist, arrived in Manhattan with a contract for a $30,000 concert tour, found that both the $30,000 and the impresario had vanished. Ormandy was down to his last nickel when he landed a job with the late Samuel L. (Roxy) Rothafel, who set him to fiddling in the last row of the second violin section at Broadway's Capitol Theater. Ormandy...
M.G.M. London Films is run by a team. One member is its chairman and managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M...