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...Magic," "The Unknown Soldier" (inspired by a monument in Budapest, guarded always by a soldier on horseback), "Souvenir de Montmarte," "Tartar Dance." Composer Woodin relates that it was in the 1880's, when he, 18, was recovering from a throat operation in Vienna, spending his time in the Volksgarten listening to Johann Strauss conduct his own waltzes, that he became "really musical." As a child, piano-scales had bored him, so he had taken up violin, then the banjo and guitar. Vienna and Strauss made him want to know more. He began seriously to study the zither, laid...
...Budapest, Bela Morvay, clown, put mad new touches upon his old familiar act at the Volksgarten Meirkus, convulsed his audience as never before, worked up to a climax where he imitated a man committing suicide by eating white powder from a little paper bag, fell to the ground writhing comically, waved away other clowns who rushed to his assistance, cried, "Let me die!" and did so, grinning. Dismissed, he had failed to find...
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