Baják László Ihász István: The Hungarian National Museum History Exhibition Guide 4 - The short century of survival (1900-1990) (Budapest, 2008)

Room 18. "Today, it is principally through culture and not the sword that the Hungarian homeland can be maintained and made great again" (Count Klebersberg). László Baják

Csortos, Pál Jávor, Gyula Kabos, Manyi Kiss, Mária Sulyok, Zita Szeleczky, Vízváry Mariska etc.) became movie stars of course. From 1939 on, however, the greatest star was Katalin Karády, whose film Halálos tavasz (Fatal Spring) was presented then. Changes in life were also reflected in children's games. Following rising demands, more and more toys were made out of cheaper materials and in simpler forms. Irredental elements appeared in board games, with traditional pieces being dressed in Hungarian attire in the spirit of the times, and among other items toy cars started to become popular. Handiwork was during this period a fundamentally female activity. The motifs on household textiles, women's and children's clothes reflect a taste for the eclecticizing and characteristically Hungarian taste dominating the age. Alongside traditional techniques, hand-knitting appears and quickly becomes very popular. Radio broadcasting in Hungary began in 1925, when the Csepel radio station was opened, and by 1939 there were 450,000 paid-up listeners. At this time there were daily short-wave broadcasts (several mawkish songs written by Vilmos Sebő and Pál Kalmár among others). Following the demands of the urbanising, and especially the broadening middle-class sector of society, there was at this time a significant expansion of the leisure-time infrastructure. A long line of activities which at the beginning of the century had been confined to the privileged "top 10,000",