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Bits to Big-Time. Paul Lukas (real name Lucacs Pal) was born in 1895 on a train pulling into the Budapest station. His father was a Hungarian advertising man. By the end of World War I Lukas was a Hungarian aviator. Then for two years he was a bit player and chorus man. Spotted by the Comedy Theater in Budapest, Lukas made his big-time Budapest debut as Liliom...
...Radcliffe Choral Society then rendered a few selections for women's chorus alone including three Hungarian Folk Songs by Bela Bartok; "Only Tell Me", "Do Not Leave Me", and the "Teasing Song". They also sang "Awake Ye Wintry Earth", a Dutch chorale of the sixteenth century, and the Bach Chorale "Now All the Woods Are Sleeping...
...Merry Widow's box-office appeal, the New Opera Company departed from its past policy of using only youthful U.S. unknowns. It hired world-famed Polish Operatic Tenor Jan Kiepura for leading man, gave the part of the Widow to his wife, Marta Eggerth. Redheaded Hungarian Cinemactress Eggerth, an enticing peach sundae in liberally flounced weeds, gave Lehár fans all they could...
Panic swept through the satellite kingdoms of the Balkans like fire through an old-fashioned country hotel. Dimly in the smoke and confusion the watchers saw frantic Fascists rushing from window to window, seeking escape. In the Bulgarian wing the flames licked highest. In the Hungarian part there seemed still time; people were debating what to take with them, seizing the customary irrelevant knickknacks. The Rumanian section looked hopeless. Outside stood armed Germans, determined that none should save himself at the Führer's expense. Crouched silently among the Germans were tin Greeks, the Albanians, the anti-Axis...
...Hungarian peace feelers turned up in many neutral capitals, generally coupled with inquiries as to how much of the territory snitched from Rumania, Yugoslavia and Czecho-Slovakia she might look forward to retaining. One feeler was reported to have offered the Yugoslav Government in Exile the return of all former Yugoslav territory. It was ignored...