Verhovayak Lapja, 1937. július-december (20. évfolyam, 27-53. szám)
1937-09-30 / 40. szám
Seftember 30, 1937 ENGLISH EDITION PAGE 5 Our Third Gigantic Membership Drive• __________________________ TWO WONDERFUL EXCURSIONS ON FRIDAY, October 1st, Verhovay Fraternal Insurance Association will conduct another membership campaign and during the year 1938, fifty (50) free round trip railroad and steamship tickets from New York City to Budapest, Hungary will be given to the succesful contestants. Twenty-five (25) prizes will be given to the older contestants and another twentyfive (25) will be given to the younger contestants. During the year 1938, the Holy Year will be celebrated by a Eucharistic World Congress to be held in Budapest, from May 26th, to May 28th. From then until the 20th of August, Hungary will celebrate the 900th Anniversary of St. Stephen who was the first constitutional monarch of Hungary. By embracing Christianity and evangelizing his subjects, he set up a kingdom that was to protect Christendom and culture for long ages tp come. During the last week of HUNGARIAN VIOLINIST AND $50,000 FIDDLE Dr. Francis Aranyi of Duquesne University’s department of music and Hungarian concert violinist returned to Pittsburgh last week from a vacation on long Island bringing with him the Bavarian .Stradivarius, one of the finest and most famous violins in the world — .and incidentally, worth $50,000. Dr. Aranyi will play the celebrated fiddle in his New York debut October 18 in Town Hall. “It will mean a real development in my career,” the Hungarian-born violin- i s t said. He now has twro violins made over 200 years ago by Antonio Stradivari. The inferior one, worth about $25,- 000, is his own, but the other has been Ibaned to him for the important October recital by Emil Herrmann of New York. “Of course they are both fine violins,” Dr. Aranyi said in his broken but accurate English. “However, the Ba-August there will be held a World Congress of Hungarians who will represent their people residing in all parts varian is'a product of the master’s best period, about 1720. There are only some 20 instruments in existence from that period. “This one got its name from the fact that it once belonged to Louis II of Bavaria, who never played it. Louis was a great friend of art, and was Richard Wagner’s patron. He left the violin to the famous German violinist, Bruno Walter, from whom it went to Caressa, the Parisian dealer and crafstman Caressa sold it to an American — I don’t know who. Now it belongs to Mr. Herrman. Sorry no, it is not yet mine.” In the same case with the two violins was a $1,500 bow of the world. Details of these membership drives will be published in our later issues. It has made by the master French craftsman, Tourte. Born in Budapest, Dr. A- ranyi was accepted in the master class of Hubay when he was 13 years old, and was later taught by Willy Hess and Henri Marteau at Berlin. He made his American debut with the Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra. “I liked Pittsburgh the minute I came here,” he said. “Now I love it.” Mass appreciation of music, in America and the rapid development of radio concerts means great days ahead for music, he thinks. / “The past of music is in Europe, the future in this country,” lie says. been decided that the campaign conducted for the older group will be of short duration and the twenty-LATEST NEWS FROM HUNGARIAN • NEWSPAPERS FATES The city council of Nagy\ árad ordered the statue of Imre Szacsvay, one of the martyrs of the Hungarian War of Liberty, to be removed from its place. Imre Szacsvay was a writer of the parliamentary records in 1849 and tvas one of those who signed the Dethronement Act of the Habsburg family; later on he was found guilty’- and put to death for this act. — Szigligeti was one of the most popular and most productive five winners will leave New York in the Spring so that they may be able to attend the Eucharistic World Congress and the entire St. Stephen celebration. The contest for the younger group will continue a few weeks longer and these twenty-five winners will leave for Hungary during the summer. The rules of these contests will be published as soon as they are adopted. Every loyal Verhovay member should immediately contact his (or her) friends and neighbors and explain to them that Verhovay is continuing to pay annual dividends or refunds back to her members. As long as your neighbors belong to the white race and are good moral clean-living and law abiding persons they may be invited to join us. You may explain to them that you do not wish them to become a part of us if they do not come under this classification. playwrights of the Romantic Period. His bust was removed piecemeal. With this the last Hungarian monument has been removed at Nagyvárad.--------o--------In the first days after the change rule, all the art relics that had anything to do with Hungarian history were demolished in the detached Southern part of Hunagry. This fate also overtook Rákoczi’s statue in Zombor. Now we learn from the newspapers of Budapest that a Serb workman employed at the electrical pow- -•>. er station in Zombor stole some of the iron and bronze parts of the statue out of tin cellar of the Municipal build * ings where they had beeilying and sold them as scrap iron. Is this, perhaps, one way of showing appreciation for the relics of the past? EDITOR Sensational Announcement In the English Section of the “Verhovayak Lapja,” a series of brilliant articles will be published, BEGINNING NEXT MONTH. This series will impress our second generation not only with the effect of a sensation but will at the same time be enlightening and thrilling. It will be published for long months to come. The title of the articles will be “LOUIS KOSSUTH AND THE LAND OF THE MAGYARS.” Watch and read the “Verhovayak Lapja” and spread the news so that not only your immediate family and relatives may read it but especially to give your American friends the opportunity to familiarize themselves with “LOUIS KOSSUTH AND THE LAND OF THE MAGYARS.” One of the best pictures of KOSSUTH from ‘48, year of the beginning of the Hungarian “War of Liberty.” // • \ ■ /1V 1 ■{ V. HS>
