Word: budapests
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...compensations of being a stage-door keeper is the tips derived from gallant gentlemen seeking entrance to the actresses' dressing rooms. Last week the indigent Budapest Opera capitalized such backstage gallantry. It offered for sale to Budapest bloods little silver keys to the ballet dancers' green room and the singers' smoking room. Price $150, good for one year...
Bela Lugosi, son of Banker Baron Lugosi. was born in Lugos, Hungary, 49 years ago. He stands 6 ft. i in., has bulging blue eyes, was a famed actor in Budapest for ten years before the War. A sympathizer of Count Karolyi during the Revolution, he fled Hungary when the Royalists returned to power. In 1925 in Manhattan he learned the lines of a Spanish Apache in The Red Poppy, without knowing enough English to know what he was saying...
...jacket of his travelog, in which he tells of his recent peregrinations from Berlin to Budapest and back, Author Hergesheimer is pictured standing with a Berlin policeman pointing down the street. From Author Hergesheimer's expression if, is clear that there is another beer hall a little farther on. Almost exclusively from beer halls, famed restaurants and night clubs, does he survey the contemporary Central European scene. A characteristic vista: "I had dinner, alone, at the Restaurant Atelier, and sat for a long time over a plate of wild strawberries, a superlative Punch cigar, and mild Austrian brandy...
Back to Berlin went Author Hergesheimer, a little disgruntled to have found himself in Budapest sitting "a long while over a second tall glass of Pilsener beer with no ambition to go farther, see more. That tendency . . . was, I reflected, the reverse of intelligent. I did not want to write an account of four middle European cities that was scarcely more than a record of caviar and beer." To escape this eventuality he moved to another beer hall, had another drink...
...traveled on to Vienna where he arrived ''too late." Frau Sacher, proprietress of the city's most famed restaurant had died, leaving Author Hergesheimer with only second-rate objectives. He made the most of Vienna's 38 varieties of coffee, all "superlative," but concluded that the city was passee. Budapest, with its slightly Oriental flavor he liked better, though he was shocked, on going to hear the gypsy music, to hear "Donna e Mobile" instead. "It was not necessary to travel the far way from Pennsylvania to Hungary to learn that donne were mobile. They were mobile in West Chester...