Magyar Herald, 1994 (1-3. szám)
1994 / 3. szám
3rd QUARTER, 1994 MAGYAR HERALD PAGE 3 The Magyar CJub as primal promoter of all cultural activities in the bygone seven decades In 1924, the Magyar Club started out as a small, private organization of Hungarian professionals. In the depression years of the 1930's, the Club entered into charitable activities to help needy magyars, raised funds for soup kitchens on Buckeye Road, helping the unemployed. The Club sponsored gala events, leading to the "Night in Budapest" supreme annual event. At the 1956 October Freedom-fight in Hungary, the Magyar Club became the foremost leader hand in hand with the United Hungarian Societies of Cleveland, in helping in every way possible, by sending a "mercy plane" to Austria to Hungarian refugees loaded with clothes, food and medicine, and collecting relief funds of enormous amounts. The Club also worked hand in hand with local churches to resettle hundreds of refugees from Camp Kilmer. When in 1958, Jack Russell, City Council president, decided to make the "Night in Budapest" into an annual grand event, Magyar Club leaders and members were the actual helping hand. Bethlen Hall year after year had been decorated with utmost glitter and was filled with elegant guests to its capacity. Through the helpful participation of Hollywood's great Hungarian, Joseph Pasternak, glamorous Hungarian stars came as honored guests and performers to Cleveland. In 1958, Ilona Massey (Hajmássy), 1959 Jimmy Durante (Schnozolla), 1960 Anna Kapitány, 1961 Sándor Svéd, 1962 Zsa Zsa Gábor, 1963 Edie Adams (Ernie Kovacs's widow) 1964 Mitzi Gaynor, 1965 Bill Dana, 1966 Paul Lukacs, 1967 Kay Stevens, 1968 Charles Korvin, 1969 Joe Pasternak and in 1970 Renée Gallard. Every year, the honorées were co-honored by one of our local celebrities. Helping along with the Cleveland Cultural Gardens, under the leadership of Lili Volosin, Magyar Club workers were always in the frontline. Some of the greatest results: Székely-Kapu, Ady's Statue, Reményi's and Liszt's Memorial, Madách's Statue. In the 1970's, a rejuvenation of the Club occurred. In the 1980's and 1990's events already appeared in front of the seeing eyes of the present generation and they speak for themselves. Now we are at the gate of the 70th glorious Anniversary! KOSSUTH MEMORIAL YEAR March 20, 1994-March 20, 1995 On the 20th of March, 1994, Hungarians all around the globe commemorated the 100th anniversary of the death of the "Hungarian Apostle of Democracy", the "Father of Magyars" - Lajos Kossuth. His historic role in the 1848-49 Hungarian War for Freedom made his memory immortal. His name was a flag around which Hungarians rallied during the Nation's glorious fight for liberty so tragically overpowered by the joint forces of Austria and Giant Russia. Kossuth kept crusading after the lost war until his death. His fight brought about a change from despotism to reconciliation by the end of the Hungarian Millennium. He sojourned in America from De-Tß3I GW® áFfílfö Continued from page 2 to perform in Cleveland on June 10. In a half-page ad, Durante said he was coming here to help celebrate radio station WGAR's move on the radio band to 1220. "That means", Durante said, "better reception for listeners! It means more audience for us! And listeners will be so pleased, maybe they'll buy more of our sponsor's products! cember6,1851 until July 14,1952, with such an uppermost enthusiastic reception, which remains unparalleled in world history. He returned from America with a broken heart of painful disappointment and lived for the length of 42 years in Turin, Italy, as the "turini remete", the "Hermit ofTurin." He never returned to America, and never returned to Hungary. If he had, perhaps the course of history would have taken a different course! Kossuth was the only Hungarian who made a definite and indelible mark on the world. He received oceans of precarious promises and enthusiastic emotional eruptions, but with no military intervention, which would have been the only sober solution. The western powers behaved the same way as many times before and many times after, toward an heroic nation that suffered a cruel crucifixion in defense of the West against immense invasions of Tartars, Turks, Germans and Russians. How the identical and mournful note has been repeated over and over again in the hysterical history of euphemistic Europe. Kossuth left America on July 14, 1852 with deep disillusion with his wife under the false names of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. He carried with him a cedarbranch from George Washington's Mt. Vernon grave, which was kept under glass cover until the day of his death. "And maybe then the sponsor (Camel Cigarettes) will give us a raise! (And they did!) Many Magyar Club members attended the Hollywood Hungarian's performance on June 10, 1944. Later, in 1959, the Cleveland Magyar Club was even co-sponsor to "Schnozzola's" return visit at Bethlan Hall. Life brings moving times of recollections, both of sorrows and of joys, occasions of tears and laughter, victories and defeats. Kossuth in old age. . "Hermit of Turin". 1802-1894 .
