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...world's championship of 1929 was competed for in Budapest, where Miss Henie showed such form that the judges all decided in her favor without dissension. In New York last week she won the 1930 championship title. She has won six championships in singles and three in couples in her own country...
...first championship for figure skating. She did not skate in the earnest way of most young girls, and when turning an outside left with her arms out she did not look like a pullet. On the lakes at St. Moritz, and the rink at Budapest, in London, Stockholm, she was wildly applauded. She gave a command performance for the Queen of Norway, and afterward the Queen wrote to her brother George V in England and asked him to see Sonja when she was in London. King George did as he was asked, and later that evening his wife said...
HAYDN'S QUARTET IN D MAJOR, by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Co- lumbia, $4.50)-The Leners play particularly the Largo with surpassing tenderness...
...young lawyer in Budapest, with a wife and infant child, has just recovered from an illness and is looking for a job when the World War breaks out. He unheroically volunteers (he has flat feet). To his great surprise he is accepted, goes to training camp, then to the front, is captured by the Russians, and, in company with thousands of German and Austrian prisoners, is sent from one prison camp to another, finally landing in Siberia. There, for almost six years, he stays...
Author Markovits writes from his own experience: he was taken prisoner by the Russians in 1915 and spent six years in Siberian prison camps. His book, which made little stir on its first publication in Transylvania, was taken up by Budapest critics, is now being published simultaneously in nine countries...