Alpár Ágnes: A cabaret - A fővárosi kabarék műsora, 1901-1944 (MSZI, Budapest, 1978)

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Proving the vitality of the genre the cabaret has developed a special type of actors. Among them Sándor Rott, Géza Steinhardt, Béla Salamon, Sándor Radó, Gyula Kabos, Vilmos Komlós, Jenő Herczeg, Géza Boross, Géza Sajó have to be mentioned as the most eminent ones. The history of the cabaret is not yet written. The author of this book undertook to discover the cabaret programs - a work indispensable to further elaboration in this field. Because of the insufficiency of the source material this proved to be a difficult task. Most playbills are lost. The advertisement of performances in daily papers was irregular and inconsistant and criticism was rarely published. Still, the discovered programs provide rich source material to anyone inclined to write the history of the Hungarian cabaret. In this book approximately 70 cabarets follow each other in the chronological order of their opening. All are separated from one another by illustrations. Under the name of and place of a cabaret a short summary about its establisher, history, company is presented together with some appropriate quotations from contemporary press or mémoires. This is followed by the program of the cabaret provided with registry number by means of which the authors, composers, titles and the authors of solo pieces can be looked up in the index. The end of the book contains the topography of cabarets till 1944 and a select bibliography.