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...stage, the actors and the well-rehearsed dialogue were almost the same; only the victim's name was different. In the same drab Budapest courtroom in which Joseph Cardinal Mindszenty was condemned, before the same Communist judge and prosecutor, Archbishop Joseph Grösz of Kalocsa last week went on trial for treason. Like Mindszenty, he "confessed."* Again the world saw the spectacle of a strong man broken and repeating in court what the Red scriptwriters dictated...
They began when the Red Army, having swept up most of southeastern Europe, began to roll across the Alföld, the vast Hungarian plain, toward Budapest. Aged (76) Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy had asked the Allies for an armistice. Thereupon Major Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian Nazi leader, took over the Government. The Germans took over Horthy, carried him off to Germany, together with Hungary's national gold reserve of 80,000,000 pengö ($27,500,000). But the Hungarian peace delegation had already flown to Moscow...
Theatre Life had a gala anniversary on its 25th birthday in 1935. From Szöke Szakal (translation: blond beard), a Hungarian actor, Publisher Ince got a letter of congratulation, a check for $125 to cover a subscription for the next 25 years. Three years later, Theatre Life was dead. This week, to Szöke Szakal, now in Hollywood, Publisher Ince announced that he was back in business, sent a 22-year subscription to Stage...
Foreigners have several times conquered Poland, but few foreigners have ever mastered the pronunciation of Polish. It has a peculiar letter similar to L which is pronounced like W; W is pronounced like V or F; CZ like SH; SZ as in the word "azure." Poles also frequently half tick off an extra consonant or two that is hitched in front of many words, and pronounce OW at the end of words as in "woof-woof...
...Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Czech Philharmonic, Georg Széll conducting; Victor: 10 sides). When Germany annexed the Sudeten area. Prague's Czech Philharmonic was disbanded, its members mobilized. But last week, anxious music-lovers learned that it had reassembled, would tour Great Britain. The least talked-about of the world's great orchestras, the demobilized Czechs had long been famous among record collectors for their matchless woodwinds and brasses. Of Czech Composer Dvořák's "New World" Symphony they give a matchless performance...