Verhovayak Lapja, 1937. január-június (20. évfolyam, 1-26. szám)

1937-05-29 / 22. szám

1937. májút 29

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‘Women for Women’

2'ucl International Women'« Week Budapest, 5—12 August, 1937.

A committee of prominent Hungarian ■women has been formed tinder the presidency of H. R. H. the Archduchess MAGDALEN to arrange an International Women’s Week from 5—12th of August in Budapest. The Hungarian women in inviting their friends from other countries to rally in Budapest for a week and to profit from their hospitality know that at the same time they are giving theit guests the chance of visiting a country and its metropole which both have become so immensely popular in the last few years with holidaymakers from all nations.

The aims and objects of this year’s international meeting in Budapest are:

1.__To foster women’s international understanding as a potent

influence toward world-peace.

2.__To promote friendship between Hungarian women and women from other countries.

3__To show their guests the characteristics of Hungarian life,

folklore and architecture as well as their many activities in social work and public welfare.

Women’s organizations from all countries have accepted the invitation and have promised to make up parties to come to Budapest.

The committee issued the following invitation:

Dear Madam:

I have very great pleasure in inviting you, on behalf of the women of Hungary, to attend the 2nd International Women’s Week to be he’d in Budapest in August this year.

No words of mine can express the warmth of welcome which awaits you. Those who were fortunate enough to come last year

__-we are proudly and sincerely

confident of this--will never forget their stay in our lovely city, nor the lasting friendships which they made; and we, for our part, look for a better understanding between the women of all nafostering international friendship in the supreme interest of peace.

Yours sincerely Spur

Chairman of the International Women’s Week.

Gala Summer Dance

So successful was our Third Anniversary Dance on Tuesday, April 6, and so constant have the numerous requests been for another dance that Branch 395, McKeesport, Pa., decided to hold a gala summer dance on Tuesday, June 22.

tions and for peace.

You, too, will love Budapest and enjoy your stay. You will find new friends eager to hear all about America, to welcome you into their homes, and to show you with pride all that is beautiful ad dear to them. There will be excursions to lovely Lake Balaton for bathing and boatig; to the little villages where people still dress in the picturesque costumes of tradition, singing and dancing to the tunes which have been handed down from generation to generation; and to the Puszta, the great central plain of Hungary, where the finest horses in Europe roam free under the eye of the silent herdsman, that plain which has inspired some of the most beautiful poetry in the Magyar tongue.

There is again a very strong committee of leading Hungarian women, with H. R. H. Archduchess Magdalen as the Patron. It is hoped that many prominent women will come from the United States and Great Britain, and deliver speeches at the meetings.

The Rt. Hon. Viscountess Astor is among the prominent supporters of the Week.

We are glad to say that a special party is being formed from the United States, and full details about this and the special Government facilities accorded to the participants may be obtained from the New York office of the International Women’s Week: Dr. F. Mayer, 730 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

We look forward with pleasure to the co-operation of American w)men in this p’easant task of

It was decided to hold the affair in the newly decorated dance pavillion of Olympia Park, here in McKeesport. William Ferency was named chairman, and he named the fo’lowing committees and aides:

Margaret Biro and Helen Goydan of the Reception Committee are aided by Irene Pasternack, Elmer Halas, Julius Salako.

In charge of the program is Alex Goydan and Betty Toth aided by Bert Kapinus, Betty Bartha, Bert Nagy, Margaret Ferency.

Publicity is directed by Olga Hrehocik and Frank Toth with the assistance of Dolly Ray, Bill Marton, Rose Nagy, James Kozak and Ethel Kovács.

The orchestra committee Emma Poromb, and Julius Lenhart are assisted by Margaret Kapinus, Louis Dirle, Betty Barabas, and Joseph Pfefferkorn.

The details of decoration are taken care of by Emma Vakarcs, and Ethel Halas with the assistance of Mary Gary, Ju'jus Bartha, Goldie Schaffner, and Jim Benedeck.

In charge of the floor, Alex Meszar and Betty Újlaki, aided by Joseph Zsuffa, George Pintye, Julia Nemeth, and Mrs. Norman.

Refreshments will be taken care of by Ann Pasternack, Margaret Dudash and Gus Nagy, to be assisted by Louis Kish, Gus Labancs, Irene Kormos and Ann Gajdzik.

Mary Faragó, Mike Benedeck and Paul Shalako, aided by John Gerenie, John Pfefferkorn, Joseph Knapick will be in charge of the door.

The task connected with ticket sales and distribution are in charge of John Sabo Jr., Ethel Kormos and Arnold Winter, assisted by Mrs. Danko, John Bohacs, Helen Rarick, John Gerenie, Emma Kemeny, Steve Kovács, Louis Lewinter, Mrs. Vach, Margaret Krajnak, Bill Marton, Frank Toth, Mary Faragó.

It is with much pleasure, after a great deal of effort, that we announce that Will Roland’s twelve piece CBS and NBC Orchestra will play for the dance. It is an accepted fact that Will Roland’s Orchestra is the best in the Pittsburgh district and his fame has reahced national proportion.

A few of the outstanding places where Will Roland has played long engagements are Kennywood Park for four years, crowds gathered to dance to his music at Waldmeer Beach and Euc’id Beach in Cleveland. He played for the socially Elite at financier Mellon’s private club, Rolling Rock. Music for the Proms at Pitt, Carnegie Tech, and Duquesne University were also furnished by Will Roland. For the past three years Pittsburgh’s smart set has thrilled to his music at the Hotel' Schenley from where Verhovay has by special engagement brought him to play for their dance Tuesday, June 22. We urge all our Verhovay Brothers and their friends to attend this outstanding affair so that they too may thrill to Rythm by Roland.

=Verhovayokjopja=

BASEBALL TEAM ORGANIZED IN SCRANTON

The baseball team organized in the Junior Order of Branch 174 of Scranton, Pa., held its introductory game on Sunday, May 2nd.

The game was opened by the Officers of the Senior Order. Branch President John I. Nemeth threw the first ball. Frank Sipos', Manager of the Junior Order of the Branch batted it and Nicholas Porompovitch, Branch Treasurer acted as catcher. Secretary Joseph Cibolya was to have acted as umpire. In his capacity of Organizer of District 2, he was out of town and arrived at the ball field too late to do so. This office was performed very expertly, by Martin Racz, Branch Vice-President.

The small Verhovay team met an opposing team more than two years older than they and still the boys stood their ground, to the vociferously expressed satisfaction of the membership as well as other spectators. The greatest satisfaction of all, over the outcome of the game,- is J. (Bobby) Horvath’s Manager of the Team. During this year the Senior Order is supplying them with all necessities. In the subsequent issue of our paper, we shall publish their group photograph, also.

Joseph Cibolya

Sec. Br. 174

Go Magyar, Young Man

IN BUDAPEST THERE’S GLAMOUR IN THE WINE . . . THE MUSIC . . . THE WOMEN . . . AND THE PASTRY By William B. Powell

Arriving at the airport in Bupest, one of the first things to arrest your attention is the fact that half the cabs lined up bear a sign “KIS TAXI.” Now you’ve probably heard plenty to the effect that Budapest was a gaycapital — but you weren’t prepared to have them put ideas in your head the minute you popped into your first taxi. You soon learn, however, that “Kis” merely means “little,” though it might well relate to its English significance. For this Danubian city is a provocative place for gentlemen rovers. In my opinion it rates being called “a man’s haven” just as much as London. And for different reasons.

First, consider the ladies. Those Hungarian women are acknowledged by connoisseurs to be the last word. If only I were writing this in the Clara Bow-Elinor Glyn era, it would be easy to sum up their charm in one word “it.” Many men who know their way about the world manage to turn up in Budapest more frequently than in any other city. They probably don’t linger as long as in places where there are more ties in the way of business, society, or English-speaking circles ■—but when they hear the call of Buda —■ and Pest — they hop a plane and fly down to the Danube.

They may not be the most beautiful creatures on earth (personally, I think the Stockholm girls go to the top) but they’ve certainly got glamour, the women of Hungary, and they are chic as the devil. Spend their last cent on clothes. And speaking of cents, the belles of Budapest are not gold-diggers. There is a story of a fascinating Hungarian society matron who had been playing around with a wealthy Englishman. One day he turned in Budapest bearing with him a bracelet he picked up in Paris. When he presented it to his ladylove she refused it regretfully, saying she “didn’t want to spoil her amatuer standing.” Well anyway, that’s the story.

The first place you’ll notice these lovely ladies will probably be on the Corso — for the Corso is Budapest’s most famous and very original promenade. It’s like no place else in the world. For about ten New York blocks, streching along the Danube is a wide pavement- (no traffic ollawed), solely for promenaders. At one end is the Ritz Hotel (called Dunapalota by the Hungarians) and at the other end the Carlton, Bristol, and Hungária. In between are a series of open-faced cafés. Most have Zigeuner (gypsy) music. One offers a crooner who strums his own accompaniment, another may have a local Ruth Etting. What makes these Corso cafés different from those you’ve seen on other waterfronts and boardwalks is that in Budapest they are all beautifully decorated, lighted and " planted. They are finished, not crude.

<$>as you stroll back and forth along the Corso with the variouskinds of music floating out intothi soft night air from one side,, across the Danube on the hills cf Buda (the Corso is in Pest) you see old fortresses and palace buildings dramatical’y floodlighted. No wonder so many romances have started in such a romantic setting.

And you’ll be impressed by the over-average beauty of the gals at the night clubs, such as Moulin Rouge and Arizona. The latter, incidentally, is probably one of the most original hot spots in Europe. In fact, on a recent, visit to Budapest Eddie Sutherland, the Hollywood director, was so taken with the possibilities of Arizona as a setting for a film he asked for complete specifications so it cou’d be carried out in some future picture he will direct. The hostess, master of ceremonies — and owner of the club is a hearty ex-chorus girl, Miss Arizona, whose robustness brings back nostalgic memories of our own Texas Guinan.

You’ll see these Budapest glamour girls also in places patronized by the créme de la creme.

Especially at tea time. But in Budapest tea time is from six to seven. You see, you don’t dine there until nine. If you go to the theatre, not till about ten. So at the witching hour of six, go into Gerbeaud’s, where they have the most marve’ous patisserie in the world. No, I assure you, you won’t feel like one of of those pastry hounds even if you go in alone. Lots of men patronize Gerbeaud’s. At one I table, there may be a group of officers. At another, businessmen or diplomats who have gathered as they would at a bar. They are probably drinking coffee, served in Hungarian fashion topped with whipped cream and eating pastries which, let me repeat, are better than you will find anywhere. (Yes, and I’ve sampled them in Paris, Vienna, and Oslo.) If it’s a hot day, go to Gerbeaud’s branch in the park — the same sort of affair, plus gypsy music, and a setting reminiscent of the Paris bois.

If the atmosphere of a place such as Gerbeaud’s cramps your style — you may not be able to overcome the feeling that it’s too “tea-roomish” — go out to Mar- J guerite Island. This garden, acres of garden, lies in the Danube in the heart of Budapest. But it’s so beautifully planted and laid out, you think you were miles from a teeming city of morethan a million. Have tea or tokay (oh yes, of course you can get a highball or any kind of a cocktail you have ever heard of) on the terrace of the Palatinus Hotel. As the shadows fall across the well-kept green lawn and golf course, as the lights appear along both sides of the Danube and the gypsy band plays some throbbing tune — it’s a. (continued on next -page)