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...Budapest policemen snap to salute as the gleaming motor cars of the immensely rich, deposed Habsburg Archdukes pass. The U. S. Minister and the rest of the diplomatic corps periodically attend archducal levees-mere playacting, but taken in aristocratic earnest...
...over the U. S. are offices proudly signboarded "The Royal Hungarian Consulate." In Budapest the No. 1 man is Admiral Nicholas Horthy de Nagybanya, commonly called abroad "The Regent," but in Hungary officially "His Serene Highness the Governor of the Kingdom" -the only 100% kingdom without a King...
Junior Leagues in London, Budapest and Halifax are also seeking membership in the A.J.L.A. The Association intends to consider each application separately, to set up no inflexible international rule which might embarrass, should some undesirable group of outlanders fulfill the technical requirements of membership of an International Association of Junior Leagues...
Hisses, boos and catcalls last week rewarded Soprano Amelita Galli-Curci for her twitterings as Violetta in a Budapest performance of La Traviata. On the occasion of her recent retirement from Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House (TIME, Jan. 27), she provoked controversy by pronouncing interest in opera dead...
Forthwith she sailed for Europe where Budapest persuaded her to sing a Traviata for $4,000. But her voice failed to please. Nor did her audience sit lethargic. Only the presence of Admiral Horthy, Hungary's Regent, saved the scene from riot. Next night she sang Rigoletto. Tired of hissing, people walked...