Word: budapests
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...looking young man, who has ushered them from an anteroom into a comfortable but shabby little office, then seats himself behind its desk and says: "I am Mr. Korda." That, at 42, Kingpin Korda looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private Life of Helen of Troy was one of the best silent pictures of its era. When Director Korda left Hollywood in 1928, however, he had had enough...
Written by Hungarian Composer Reszo Seress three years ago, Gloomy Sunday droned along in comparative obscurity until last month. Then it began to make news aplenty. Budapest police, investigating the suicide of a shoemaker named Joseph Keller, found that Keller had left a note in which he quoted lyrics from Composer Seress' poignant Szomorú Vasárnap. Further inquiry revealed that the lugubrious ballad had persuaded 17 other impressionable Magyars to take their lives. Two shot their brains out while hearing a gypsy band play the piece, others killed themselves listening to recorded versions, several leaped into...
Treasures From Budapest...
...were: from the Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund a Gandharan relief of the Birth of Budda; from the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund a sixth-century Coptic frieze; a Persian fresco from the Prichard Fund. From the Excavation Fund there was acquired twelve casts of Seythian and other objects in Budapest, and sixteen Roman and Egypto-Roman terra cotta figurines and fragments of Persian pottery were acquired from a temporary fund...
...Kingdom of Hungary has no King but is ruled by His Serene Highness the Regent, Admiral Nicholas Horthy, who maintains his unusual position by keeping up a personal Guard sworn to preserve, protect and defend Nicholas Horthy. From Budapest last week there arrived in the U. S. a significant picture (see cut) of the extremely practical Regent further entrenching himself in the devotion of his Guard by handing to the brave fellows on Christmas soap, bologna sausage, crockery, pots, pans and such especially prized gifts as an alarm clock and a meat grinder...