The Eighth Hungarian Tribe, 1982 (9. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)
1982-05-01 / 5. szám
Page 6 THE EIGHTH HUNGARIAN TRIBE May, 1982 Domokos of the Los Angeles International Opera, and Lajos Bleuer of the Detroit Philharmonic — quite a collection! The following famous Hungarian artists influenced the taste of American music lovers: Edward Remenyi, Joseph Szigeti, Edward Kilenyi, Julius D’Albert, Alexander Harsanyi, Erwin Nyíregyházi, Duci Kerekjarto, Sándor Braun — all violinists. Cellists include Gabor Rejtő, Janos Soltz, Janos Stark and Gabor Magyar. Organ virtuosos are: Dezső Antalffy-Zsiros and Joseph Somos. Pianists are: Andor Földes, George Cziffra, György Sándor, Miklós Schwalb, Otto Herz, Sari Biro, Tibor Kosma and Miklós Ivanich. Hungarian singers enjoy a great reputation in America. We mention only Maria Samson, Margaret Bokor, Ella Flesch, Alexander Svéd, Miklós Gaffni, Leslie Chabay, Lorenzo Alvary, Dezső Ernster, Michael Székely and Sándor Konya — all members of the Metropolitan Opera of New York. The Hungarian national dance, the slow and the fast chordasIcsárdás is known to many Americans. Highly artistic representatives of the Hungarian dancers are the Hungarian Ballet dancers, George and Kato Tatar of Hollywood and Nora Kovach and Steve Rabovszky of New York. Hungarian actors and actresses have had great success in films: Vilma Banky in Dark Angel, Szőke Szakai in Spring Parade, Cornel Wilde in Tarzan, Bela Lugosi in Dracula, Peter Lorre in Mister Motto, Ilona Massey in Balalaika. Viktor Varconyi in For Whom the Bell Tolls, Paul Lucas in Watch on the Rhine, Tony Curtis in Vikings, Tomara Nijinsky in Puppet Play, Zsazsa Gabor inMoulin Rouge, Ernie Kovács in TV plays, and Harry Iioudini in magic. Among movie producers and play directors, I name a few: Michael Curtis Yankee Doodle Dandy, Alexander, Vincent and Zoltán Korda, George B. Zukor (Paramount Pictures) John Auer Circus Girl, Gabriel Pascal Pygmalion, Joseph Pasternak Merry Widow, Joseph Papp Shakespeare, and the TV producer, Ivan Törzs Daktary. Hungarian contributions to American sports are really too numerous to list, I mention only the best known names: Joe Namath, the legendary quarterback of the New York Jets; Peter Gogolak of the New York Giants; George Halas, owner and trainer of the Chicago Bears; Leslie Csonka of the Miamii Dolphins; also George Shula, coach of the Miami Dolphins. In 1952 Julius Boros of Bridgeport, Connecticut won the U. S. Open Championship in golf. In 1959 Dr. István Nagy beet me U. S. champion in bowling. In 1958 Dr. András Gal has won the U. S. championship in table tenuis In 1960 Mike Hargitay was Mr. Universe, and in 1966, Judith Reményi was Miss America. In the field of literature, Joseph Pulitzer achieved the greatest success in American journalism. Feienc Molnár, Melchior Lengyel. Lajos Biro, Ladislas Faragó, Laslo Bus-Fekete were or are famous stage and film writers. Lajos Zilahy, Sándor Marai, Albert Wass are famous novelists Joseph Remenyi excelled in essays in Hungarian literature; Ida Bobula in Hungarian history; William Juhasz in cultural history; and Leslie Könnyű in literary history. More than four hundred professional artists, painters or sculptors live in the United States. We mention here only a few outstanding names: Steven Csóka, Joseph Dómján, Lajos Szalay, Andrew Osze, Lajos Markos, Steven Juharos, Terézia Kakonyi, Bela Petheo, Isabella and Edith Piczek, Steven Toth, Ferenc Varga, Emil Lindenfeld, Laslo Kemeny, Bertha and Elena Hellebrandt, Sándor Bodo and Ernest Gyimesy Kasas. Hungarian contributions to \merican science are outstanding. John Neumann was one of the foremost mathematics geniuses of our age and the creater of the computor. Nuclear physicists are: Leo Szillard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wiegner. Nobel Laureates are: Denes Gabor, Albert Szentgyorgyi, Carl Gajdacsek, and George Bekessy. Pathfinder of areodynamic8 was Theodor Karman. Joseph Galamb was the designer of the Famous Model T of the Ford factory. Theodor Puskar was one of the closest collaborators of Thomas Edison. Tubless automobile tires were invented by N. Herczeg, LP Sound reproduction and elctronics were invented by Peter Goldmark. The “Schick Test” for diagnosing diphtheria was invented by Bela Schick. Michael Somogyi introduced the “Somogyi Test” for the diagnosis of diabetes. We should also mention that there are about 2,000 Hungarian university professor teaching all over America. In military service Hungarians served well. During the Civil War there were seven Hungarian generals and many high-ranking officers on the Union’s side. That time the Congressional Medal of Honor was given to Major General Julius Stahel- Szamvald, buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Five to six thousand Hungarians served bravely in World War I, and some 75,000 in World War n,
