Word: budapests
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...Love Duel. It would save a great deal of translating if English-writing dramatists could learn of the debonair didos that presumably occur in Vienna and Budapest after the curtains are drawn. But to most English-writing dramatists sex remains the cue for either a problem play or an Oriental extravaganza. Therefore central Europe is combed for playwrights akin to the gently libidinous Ferenc Molnar. One of the latest combings is Lili Hatvany, authoress of The Love Duel...
...play itself would cause no exultation. But Ethel Barrymore acts the part of the jaded lovelady of Budapest who meets a sleek male counterpart. Ensues a mutual struggle against sentiment. Even in Budapest it is difficult not to care for the person with whom one has an affair, so after the child is born, a tremulous surrender to the exigencies and joys of affection occurs high in a Swiss chalet. This cycle of repression and catharsis is endowed with the mysteries of personality and feeling by Actress Barrymore, statuesquely assisted by Louis Calhern...
...having maligned the whole profession of dentists," the manager of the Comedy Theatre in Budapest was fined, last week, 50 pengos ($8.75). He had produced Lullaby, by satiric Dramatist Ladislaus Fodor, who makes one of his characters say: "In my youth I had scientific ambitions, but I deteriorated and became a dentist...
...four hundred years of a very unhappy international marriage, got a bit of old Hungary with about 65,000 Hungarians. Nevertheless as is well known, because the United States Senate refused to ratify the so called Treaty of Trianon, the United States closed a separate treaty with Hungary at Budapest in 1921 from which the new frontiers of mutilated Hungary were omitted. This shows that the United States was the first power to discover that, as Professor Langer points out, "in the peace settlements of 1919 the principle of national self-determination was applied in an imperfect...
...Banker deCoppet meant them to do. For balance, clarity and unity they have been and still remain the best of their kind in the U. S., without challenge. Comparable to them abroad might perhaps be the London String Quartet, the Vienna, the Busch (Berlin), and three Hungarian - the Leuer, Budapest and Roth...