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...Propaganda. Last week the Pope attended graduation exercises in the 300-year-old College of Propaganda in Rome. The college, alma mater of polyglot gospellers, produced for the Pope's edification graduation speeches in 25 tongues and dialects. Among them: Sanskrit, Hebrew, Chaldean, Japanese, Siamese, Kaffir, Gaelic, Rumanian, Magyar. Said the Pope: he was pleased that God had glorified all these tongues...
Hungarian Rhapsody (UFA). This German picture contains no dialog but its fiddles playing Magyar melodies are well recorded. Manufactured for the U. S. box office and released through Paramount, it tells about a middle-class girl who sacrifices herself for an impoverished and roguish nobleman because she respects his class. Stock characters of continental drama photographed with fine craftsmanship against their native background seem no more credible than in Hollywood pictures where this background has been artificially reproduced...
...pronounce the word "Trianon" casually, at Budapest, is to poke up live coals of Magyar patriotism and evoke recital of how the Allied Powers "ravished and dismembered" Hungary by the Treaty of Trianon...
...theatrics. Liszt claimed a native Hungarian music when he took gypsies' tunes and made them into rhapsodies. But gypsies were not Hungarians, Bartók held, their jiggings not the real musical stuff of his people. He went forth on a quest, spent two years among the Magyar peasants, listening and remembering. He found the real Hungarian folk-tunes akin to early ecclesiastic music, their rhythms more like Bach and Handel than like Liszt. He collected nearly 3,000 of them. He turned put a one-act opera, two ballet-pantomimes, seven orchestral scores, two string quartets, songs...
...Count Apponyi, undaunted hero of 64 sabre duels. As the problem at issue really involves the practice of the Rumanians of virtually confiscating without payment the property of Hungarians, in accordance with the Rumanian Agrarian Reform but contrary to the peace treaty and to the minorities treaty, the venerable Magyar aristocrat pressed for an advisory opinion from the World Court...