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Like misers in their closets, each little Central European government was trying to hoard its currency last week. Hungarians, always drastic and dramatic, were first to declare an actual "transfer moratorium." In Budapest handsome blond Baron Frederick de Koranyi (who in ornate Magyar costume on State holidays makes Magyar ladies' eyes dance) issued the Hungarian moratorium decree as Minister of Finance. It provides that for the next twelve months...
...Hungary similar restrictions on private currency exports preceded the "transfer moratorium," and remained in effect last week. To the scandal of all Budapest it was suddenly discovered that the Countess Bethlen, a socialite playwright and wife of former Premier Count Stephen Bethlen de Bethlen, was outside Hungary on a literary lecture tour. Furious Socialist Deputies demanded to know what "sinister influence" had procured the countess enough foreign money on which to travel? Or was she a criminal? Had she secret deposits abroad? What of the new Hungarian law obliging every citizen to put such deposits instantly at the disposal...
...story is a frivolous incident in the career of a Budapest diva. Informed that her singing lacks warmth and emotion, she is glad when she falls in love with a young man who has been observed loitering hopefully near her front door. She visits him at his apartment and succeeds in her frank efforts to have an affair with him. The comedy in this part of the action resides largely in the fact that the opera singer thinks the young man is a gigolo while the audience is sure that he is not. In what corresponds to the last...
...Colporteur Szoke spends most of his time in the restaurants and cafes of Budapest. Let us hasten to add that he does not go there to be fed, but to feed others with the Word of God." In Turkey, Armenian Colporteur Mihran Balian "tells of a Turk who was heard crying out with a loud voice in the midst of a large crowd: 'May this Society live long! What a philanthropic Society! It is not concerned at all with politics and supplies the people with books at cheap rates...
...Alexander Ondi, 21 (who was born in the hamlet of Chicago, Tex. and lived there for his first eleven years), tested the Hungarian law last week. Wearing a mask made for him by "the sweetheart of a friend of mine," Alexander Ondi held up a Budapest bank, got away with $10,000, fired shots into the air, hit nobody...