Word: zoltan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large estates into small privately owned holdings, won control of the City Council with 122 seats against 104 for the Communist-Social Democrat coalition. Much of its support came from people eager to vote for the only well-organized non-Communist party. The Small Holders' leader, Zoltan Tildy, jubilantly predicted that in the national election next month all Hungary would follow the capital...
Plenty of good directors have wanted to bring off just this sort of dead-static drama, so daringly ascetic in its denial of all the screen is supposed to need most and do best. Few have tried it, and none has succeeded more shrewdly than Zoltan Korda. With last year's excellent Sahara, this film puts him among the country's top directors...
Jungle Book (Korda; United Artists) is a bold attempt by the epic-minded Brothers Korda (Producer Alexander and Director Zoltan) to make Kipling's beloved animal fable of Mowgli, the Hindu boy who was raised by jungle wolves, into a movie. It can't be done. The myth-destroying movie camera produces a laborious, sometimes silly tale, saved from disgrace only by some of the best Techni-colored animal photography extant...
...real dramatis personae on Saturday. On Saturday, too, Cleveland's station WGAR did itself proud with the most notable program by an inland station yet short-waved to the Philippines. Dedicated to General MacArthur and his men was a Te Deum composed in 1936 by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Budapest's emancipation from Turkey. The program -by the Cleveland Orchestra -was short-waved "live" from Cleveland's Severance Hall, reached Bataan at churchtime Sunday morning. Said Conductor Artur Rodzinski, introducing it: "To you, our salute and our prayers." Said Commentator...