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Born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a debate he upheld the Single Tax against Socialism, won, but, convinced by his opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became...
Married. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oilman lately divorced (TIME, July 22); to Mrs. Basil Miles, Budapest-born widow of the late U. S. Commissioner to the International Chamber of Commerce and onetime wife of Peabody Savell, U. S. engineer; in Paris...
This book's 823 pages, published last fortnight simultaneously in four languages in Budapest, Berlin, Rome, Lcndon and New York, contain all of Ferenc Alomar's 20 plays. Written in Hungary, most of them have been, are being, played the world over. Some resumes...
Liliom, a Budapest barker about to become a father, gets trapped holding up a cashier, commits suicide. Years later, returning to do a good deed on earth, he forgets his purpose, slaps his daughter, now grown up. U. S. audiences relished Liliom's gruff swagger, wept copiously over his wife's dumb agony, over the pair's never-mentioned love. Philosopher Liliom: "Nobody's right?but they all think they are. A lot they know...
...Author. "1878, I was born in Budapest; 1896, I became a law student at Geneva; 1896 I became a journalist in Budapest; 1897 I wrote a short story; 1900 I wrote a novel; 1902 I became a playwright at home; 1908, I became a playwright abroad; 1914 I became a war correspondent; 1916 I became a playwright once more; 1918 my hair turned snow-white; 1925 I should like to be a law student at Geneva once more...