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...Europe Werner Janssen had chances. He has conducted in Rome, Turin, Milan, Berlin, Budapest. Herbert F. Peyser, meticulous foreign critic for the New York Times, went to Finland last winter when Janssen conducted an all-Sibelius program in the composer's presence. Critic Peyser wrote the report that won Janssen his Philharmonic engagement. Said he: "Sibelius turned to me visibly shaken and stammered, 'For the first time I am hearing my work exactly as I conceived...
...wolf, an equally good entertainer, has no song at all. No Greater Glory (Columbia), adapted from Ferenc Molnar's novel Paul Street Boys, is a war picture unlike any other that has come from Hollywood. It concerns the struggle between two groups of Budapest schoolboys-the Paul Street Boys and their larger rivals, the Red Shirts -for possession of a corner lot. Smallest, feeblest, most loyal member of the Paul Street army is Private Nemecsek (George Breakston). The only non-commissioned officer in the organization, he is eager for promotion and tries to earn it one evening...
Timothy Trebitsch near Budapest in 1879. Going to England at 20, he tacked "Lincoln" on his name, became a Lutheran missionary, then an Anglican curate, then a Quaker. As secretary to a cocoa manufacturer he turned to politics, got elected an M. P. A censor during the War, Trebitsch-Lincoln proudly recounts that he was a spy for both sides. But when England tried and convicted him it was for forgery. In 1920 he was again a censor, this time in Berlin where he said he helped General Ludendorff in the Kapp putsch. Harried from nation to nation and everywhere...
...compel department stores to stock ready-made midget clothing. Proudly the Midget Hitler claimed that he had 250 members of his league already, announced an international congress for 1935, when 10,000 midgets from all over the world are to assemble in a Budapest bowling alley...
...fresh talk of his genius (TIME, Jan. i). Next week will be published the story of Nijinsky's life, written by his wife.* Romola de Pulszky was a 17-year-old Hungarian schoolgirl when she first saw Vaslav Nijinsky dance. Sergei Diaghilev had taken the Russian Ballet to Budapest. Karsavina was with the company. So was Kshessinskaya, the Tsar's favorite who had an imperial retinue of her own, wore diamonds and emeralds the size of wal nuts. But it was Nijinsky who made the Hungarian girl decide against the dramatic career her actress mother had planned...