Borsodi Levéltári Évkönyv 1. (Miskolc, 1977)
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official machinery, clerks, the administrative staff and servants were dealt with in a separate chapter, in which the characteristics of their work at the office, the ways of their employment, their duties and rights were described. We must not neglect one of the problems of organization and concerning the settlement of the disputed financial questions arising from the separation of the county of Borsod and the town of Miskolc. After making the work of organization known the study concludes with the description of the office staff of the municipality which was formed in accordance with the plans on 1 January 1909 and the author commemorates the ceremonial act of transformation with some quotations. Dramatic art in Taktaszada, 1911—1948 Lajos Szabó In the village Taktaszada, which was settled in 1717, acting did not begin till 1911 and, what is more, it began on popular initiative. Performers were local peasants, the stage manager was the local wheelwright. The first play they performed was „The Gipsy” by Szigligeti. It means that acting began with a play of literary value in the village. The play was performed in the big hall of the inn. Another play with literary value as well was „The Wine” by Gárdonyi produced in 1913. During World War I acting was interrupted and it recommenced only in 1921 with the activity of the newly formed Presbyterian theatrical group directed by the local minister. The catholic theatrical group was formed in 1922 and their first play was „The Old Foot-Soldier and His Son, the Hussar” written by Szigligeti. Directed by the Catholic school-mistress the group performed „Nativity Play in Szada” which had been collected by country folk. Unfortunately, its playscript had got lost. Between 1926 and 1944 the „levente” society produced most plays, but the greater part of them had no literary value. In 1948 as many as eight theatrical groups worked in the village: Presbyterian, Catholic, the group of the National Peasant Party, that of the Hungarian Communist Party, that of the Social Democratic Party, the Madisz Group, the Fire-Brigade Group. The standard of plays performed had kept falling and out of a hundred performances only about twenty had literary value of some sort. The groups were invited to other villages too. After 1948 local acting came to an end and at the present time there is no theatrical group in the village. The development of economic and social conditions in the village Szentsimon between 1920 and 1950 Ernő Kovács The study falls into three chapters. The first chapter shows the development of village life from the early years of the 13th century up to the end of World War I and it tells how economic, social, political and educational conditions had changed. 290
