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From Violinist Schneider, his followers have learned to expect a dedication to chamber music of almost violent intensity. Even when he was holding down posts as concertmaster, soloist and conductor in Germany, he was rarely without his own ensemble. In 1939 he visited the U.S. with the Budapest Quartet, stayed on and played with the Budapest through most of the war. Since the war, he has organized in turn a chamber music trio, a duo and the Schneider Quartet, and taken a leading part in the Casals festivals in France. Last winter, in preparation for the Haydn cycle, he rehearsed...
That, plus the fact that he had been picked up crossing a bridge on the Yugoslav border, was all that the authorities knew or could guess about Janos. A fellow refugee, a draftsman from Budapest, had invented the name for him. A faint look of pleasure in Janos' eyes seemed to indicate that he could hear, and that he liked the name. The mystery of his real identity and origin remained...
Died. Ferenc Molnar, 74, playwright (The Swan, Liliom, The Guardsman, The Play's The Thing, and 38 others), novelist and raconteur; in Manhattan. A practicing newsman in his native Budapest for 22 years (until 1918), chipper, monocled Molnar Was sometimes called the "Hungarian Moliere." A Jew, he fled the Nazis in 1940, became a U.S. citizen. Recently, Communist-dominated Hungary labeled him a "western imperialist," banned his books, although Molnar avoided social and political comment and strove only for sophisticated entertainment. The successful playwright, he once said, must do "some swindling . . . Sometimes it is just cheating your conscience...
...Budapest's Nepszava, an editorial writer summed it all up: "Wisdom . . . Greatness . . . Love of Life . . . Love of Humanity . . . What is perseverance? What is courage? Those questions are answered in the example of Comrade Rakosi's life...
...Budapest general school, the great Comrade himself dropped in to shed the radiance of his example on the pupils. One little girl complained that she did not like gymnastics. Ah, said Rakosi, there was a time when he, too, had thought athletics unimportant, but he had learned better. Why, once, in the press of political business, he remembered, he had had to swim right across the Danube...