Gergely Pál: Az Akadémia szerepe a pesti Nemzeti Színház létrehozásában (A MTAK kiadványai 37. Budapest, 1963)

linguist, philolsgist, józse/ Bajza, critic, editor of the almanac AURORA, Gábor Mátrai (Rothkrepf), seeretary of the National School of Musie, musical critic and aesthetician, János Garai, the author of the Háry János, József Gaál, and Bál Csaló writers. Tlio Reading Committee held its sessions rather frequently, in the beginning two or three times a week, later bi-monthly in the officos of the building rent by the Aeademy at that time (lstand 2ndfloor of a liouse: Petőfi Sándor Street 3. Budapest Y.otherthau the present building of the Aeademy). Among the members of the Committee, apart from the names mentioned above, we alsó find the name of Ferenc Kölcsey, the poet, author of the Hungárián national anthem. The Oommitte rend and criticized 77 dramatic plays in the first year of its work. Several of its members did not acoept the modest fee for their work, instead they offered it as a contrihution to the prizes to be given t o authors of (Iramat ie woi-ks and translat ions which were hoped to be produced in a steadily incresing number. They made choice for the best plays to be printed or awarded by seeret hallót. The Committee held so much as 15—20 sessions a year. A large quantity of their minutes of meeting have turnéd up recently, and their evaluation is going on. Among the signors of the minutes of meeting. in uddition to the names of writers and poets, we found the name of a number of sucli outstanding aetors, who had been invited to the sessions, as Márton Lendray, Zsigmond Szentpétery, Gábor Egressy and Károly Megyery. 9