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photographers and merely asked them
when, on her way from Marienbad, not to connect my picture with the
she stopped in Karlsbad to visit me. shirt-throwing lady's story. Imagine
She would have stayed longer for her my feelings when I found my photo
cure, but fear for the safety of her next day labelled 'Count Karolyi in-
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children and the life of her husband terested in Mrs. X's case.' " His f,..0
By ROSIKA SCHWIMMER
caused her to hasten back to her re-
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treat in Czecho-Slovakia.
"Than k goodness we still can us, we are condemned to suppress left her family after an attempt to side. "But, you know, that day hatus
b frustrated. was declared out of danger, and I /Pt
laugh!" was our exclamation, when, every expression of indignation about assassinate ad
een
them h
. the journalists •$• `4t
precaution
would
have
forgiven
the
wrongs
of
the
world.
Economic
at the end of a prolonged luncheon in
And though the utniost
a New York restaurant, we found hardships crush us. Humiliation over - had been taken to protect her three even worse offenses.'
I was reminded of the many in-
that we had spent the hours snatched whelms us. All are but different babies from poisoned food, her moth-
m an overcrowded work day in ex- shades of the same color. Any even t er-heart was restless—and there was stances of Karolyi's generosity in for- 0
f ro
of different color is therefore more
changing American impressions.
giving offenses of worse character in- Is;
the question of expenses, too!
Both the Karolyis and I had meant than welcome in the sombre world of
Frail and convalescent, she mount- deed! And I remember how poorly ICI!
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to talk over Hungarian, American the expatriated.
ed a third-class carriage. I thought this generosity had been repaid when
It was the first time I hrd met
and world affairs, but instead we
't;
Count Kandy] since my escape from she hail taken this hardship upon the tables were turned.
"wasted" our time in exchanging hu-
Hungary, where I hail been held, first herself for safety's sake. Villains The first volume of the Karolyi
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morous reminiscences and observa-
by Bela Kun, as too dangerous an were melodramatically dogging the memoirs, recently published in an $.
t i s evident from this that we
tions. I
oponent
of the Soviet regime to be footsteps of the Karolyis. They might American edition, gives in modest /1/
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did not talk politics. There is noth-
look into an overcrowded third- version striking examples of that ad. *; e!
he country;
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f t then by not
character. ,,e
ing funny in world politics, especially allowed o out
the still raging regime of the White class carriage for the wife of one of mirable trait of Karolyi's
Our conversation turned from the to
for liberal political refugees from
countries which drive their citizens Terror, as personal hostage for the the richest men of Europe and one
count. At least this was Prime Min- who they liked to assert had been gen- press to the theater. The Karolyis $
into !ails.
ister Karl Hussar's explanation for erously financed by the Entente for were as enthusiastic as I about many / 0
things that we had recently seen on e; SI
The kaleidoscopic life of political
"selling out" Hungary.
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emigrants—who are none too wel- refusing my passport, when, in Janu-
"Oh no!" the countess answered. the American stage and our mutual
ary, 1920, a Swedish relief mission
ywhere—tends
to
grow
mo-
"I am no more afraid of them in a recommendations fairly stumblede.
come an
notonous, exciting though the single urged him to release me for a lecture first than in a third-class carriage. over each other. "Have you seen
events may be. Victims of persecu- tour in Sweden.
But since our fortune was confiscated 'Beggar on Horseback?' " "And you,
The countess I had met twice since
tion and misrepresentation, unable to
ssional" "
we are left without any income and 'P
Each had seen only one of these
disprove the false accusations against our exile; first, in the fall of 1920, we must be extremely economical. 1
masterpieces. Later, after having
must travel the cheapest possible
seen both plays, we agreed that no
way."
other country at present offered any-
It may seem trivial—this matter of
thing superior. These two plays, in
uncomfortable traveling; except that
line with an amazing number of :44
I remembered that the birth of her
spiritual and artistic offerings, prove
child, less than two years ago, had
American playwriting to be no longer
nearly cost her life and that she had
fulfillment.
been in delicate health ever since. It a promise, but
Our light-hearted conversation re-
was the irony of fate that my own
vealed a new Karolyi—a Karolyi with
monthly check, the allowance of gen-
erous American friends, had failed an intense sense of humor. General- se
me just that month and that I could ly I have no use for people without', et
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not insist on giving her the small this gift-1 did not recall ever hay-
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comfort of a better ride. ing classified anyone as really great

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Standing by the roadside,
With an old stone floor
And scanty furnishings—
But there was a rosevine
Over the door,
And a Mother's smile
And laughing children
That made it a Home, worth while.

We were both convalescent when who had not a fair portion of what /1,,,..,
we last met in Europe. And when we to my mind is humanity's chief claim ;I;
next met during her Chicago lectures of superiority over all other species. ' stet
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we were both heading for hospitals, Now I realized that I had included ;e
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operations and similar pleasantries. Count Michael Karolyi among the :4
And now, convalescents again in New great men of our days without having 0 /
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York, we compared notes, gratefully made the 'humor-test.'
That, after years of close political /
acknowledging the kindness of dif-
ferent groups of friends who had I co-operation with Count Karolyi, it
provided the means of our hospital had needed a relaxed lunch hour in jet
se
expenses and the generosity of Amer- the throbbing metropolis of the New /s:_
can physicians. World to discover his sense of humor, •;e,
Yes, having lived through our past, , shed a cruel light on the terrible con- 0.0
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we felt grateful that we still could; ditions of those years. I was now
glad to find corroboration for my for- ,fa 4
laugh! And it was refreshing to turn
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for a short while from the tragic pic- mer estimate of this much discussed
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Lures of national and world-affairs statesman.
Contemplating the romantic life of 1/
that fill our minds to the odd episodes
this extraordinary couple, one views
of our American experiences. How
a modern fairy tale. Countess Cath-
foolish we felt, for instance, when
erine Andrassy-Karolyi may be called 4, 00 0S ,
Manufacturers of
we found our uncleaned shoes in
s. hero i nn '
front of the bedroom doors, and now a reversed Cinderella.
,
difficult it was to make beds in Anted- of the fairy tale started life in sack- 4,',§
Platinum and Diamond Jewelry.
cloth and finished in royal garments. e
can fashion!
"When we are staying at places Countess Katus—as her family has sets
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where we have to tidy the rooms our- always called her—started life amid
selves, it is Michael who makes the the splendor of feudal palaces, and is ,
for Special Order Work.
beds. He does it more efficiently than , now "picking peas from the ashes" to
I," the countess observed, obviously secure food for her three chidren. , / 'IL'S.
proud of her use of that very Ameri- Within the short span of her barely
30 years she has run the distance .5,
can word "efficiently."
a clean shoes efficiently," from Medi evalism to the border of /1
"Oh, I also
h is mere ly a p
that Democracy whic
the count added.
wor yet estab- se
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"But he really is overdoing it," longing of mankind
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the not ld.
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complained the countess. "You know fished anywhere in
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It is her husband who, with her I1 T
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Don't you think it is unnecessary to support (as he most emphaticallr
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turn them every day." serts), tried to turn mediaeval un-
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decidedly in favor of the the brief period of his presiency
can i .
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daily turnings of mattresses — if es
sion and sublimely clean character.1
someone else is doing the work," I
Others who look in despair for disin-
decided. "But I am not so strict
terested devotion among the men and '•
when the turning happens to e y women professing to serve mankind I
job."
will find revealed in Count Karolyi's
Reviewing some of our press ex-
memoirs a personality that will help
periences, Karolyi burst out: "Oh,
them keep faith in humanity.
they gave me the fright of my life.
The memoirs begin with his strug-
When the first batch of newspaper
gle against the shameful privileges
clippings about Katus' American lec-
forced on the aristocratic child. We
ture tour reached me in London, I
are accustomed to admire talent that
found things that took away my
asserts itself and wins recognition in
breath. One paper had a gigantic
spite of adverse conditions, adverse
drawing representing her wild-eyed,
conditions usually meaning poverty
and I was glaring at her from behind
or social inferiority. But we are snob-
curtain. And under the title of the
bishly unwilling to give credit to the ,
story I found: 'Written by Countess
efforts of men and women who step 1
b
Catherine harolyi.
down from the pedestal of l
wealth and
" 'llas Katus gone crazy' I asked
myself for an agonized moment. But I rank.
People like Catherine Andrassy and
when I started reading the stuff and
when similar stories with similar • Michael Karolyi have done more than
from
drawings followed, I knew that Katusl humanized their own souls. They I
was all right and that I had merely have shown the heroic beauty of liv-
ing up to one's ideals against
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learned something new abou t
world if necessary. There can be I
ways of the press."
no more perfectly mated couple than
He recalled another press incident,
these two. Though the countess isI
which occurred right after his arrival
greatly distanced in age--Karolyi Is
in New York.
20 years older than his wife—they
'One morning I hastened as fast as
through the same stages of
I could with my lame leg and the two have gone
an extraordinary dekelopment.
sticks (the count recently suffered a
Both manifested in early youth a
double fracture of the right leg in a
curiosity about the deeper meaning
bicycle accident 1 to the hospital, to of life—a curiosity altogether shock-
' I
be at Katus' door the moment
Ir
ing in a class which considers itself
VCISVSNISSAWSICAVAISISIOSV
should be permitted to enter. Cross-
the essence of human society—what
ing a little square, I saw a big crowd
views she would have held about life
staring at a window of an upper floor
had she adhered to her childhood
through which a woman was throw-
teachings the countess has told us in
ing men's shirts and other garments
amusing fashion in her American lec-
into the street. My wife was not yet
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out of danger and I had no thought tUres.
In his memoirs Count Karolyi
for anything but her condition. So,
paints a fascinating but pathetic pit-
of course, I didn't stop for a moment.
s hteo florins, exactly as much as the salary
ehs 000 fd gainadn y d omuotthh. er T
One of the journalists in the crowd, tpuerset eol.fmhthi so c u heti ltd
of the Prime Minister of Hungary.
d
me
and
men-
however, recognize
whom Petofi wrote poems appear for But the youngster's allowance was
A wild chase fol-
tioned
my
name.
merely
for his "small extras," as he
play
**we
a moment. We hear one of them
lowed. I rushed lamely forward, but
was living at home and provided with
the Biedermeier songs. She "never
a
crowd
of
journalists
pursued
roe.
"1 would not have my
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else, though as a everything.
It was a regular chase. Being dis- played anything
, children grow up under such condi-
young girl she was the pupil of
Wishes fur a Happy and
abled, I was easily halted and I
he says, remembering the de-
yield- Chopin in Paris." We watch glimpses , tions,"
ing I would save time by yield-
it s o f hi s own pampered youth.
iced
Prosperous New Year.
of rooms in the Karolyi palaces, thelt a
How the older men of his family
ing to fate.
scenes of sonic of the tragic episodes
"I surrendered to the battalion of
taught him betting on horses, how
of Hungarian history.
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There were other rebels in the fam- they offered him the most popular
donna as mistress "free of ex.
theirs
prima
Before or After the Theatre
ily before Michael Karolyi, but
how the whole rotten feudal
was only political rebellion, chiefly penses,"
disgusted the young man—
oppress
system
hatred of the Hapsburgs, the
bloodless
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ears of Hungary, their Hungary. . who, by the way, was not a
Sunday School model at all—makes
With a disgusted smile he relates',
an intensely interesting human story.
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how he had to fight for more knowl-
edge than his father considered nec- ' Even the penny-dreadful element
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is not wanting. In the last year of
essary for him. "There were always .
six, sometimes eight tutors and gov- the war, a cousin accused Count Ka-
ernesses for the two of us in the ' royli of treason. Hungary stood
The memoirs disclosed that
house." Ile is describing the educe- aghast!
the accusing cousin and
Offices and Parlors:
tion of himself and his sister Eliza- between
Beth. "We learned their languages, Michael Karoyli, the holder of one
of the largest entailed estates of
but
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French, German and English,
"a Hungary,
there stood only the count's
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childless stepbrother. The accusing
often told the young Countess
any highly educated modern manis, cousin
that Karoyli would never
rl
due to his indomitable will. Forcing Andrassy
his way to knowledge he was backed marry and that he himself or his sons
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only
by
his
grandmother
against
all
would
inherit
the entailed estate. But
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at the age of 39 Karoyll married the
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the other members of the motherless
child's family. . brilliant young countess and the dis-
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turned the greed of the
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When he asked for high school tut- appointment
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into a hatred of political na-
tion the father answered: "Better cousin
go hunting." With the grandmother's ture. Something for the psycho-an-
backing, however, he at last got' . alyist!
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Fortified by the utter devotion of
through high school, or, as he car- ,
ti his wife, Karolyi has stood unbowed
rect., himself in self-irony: "That
the unbelievable attacks of
diploma."
under
to say I got the high school
both families, of their class and of
The alleged school education consist•'
e m,
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p
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se
him
.at an enervated
ed in servile teachers telling the
boy
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of
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hat they were going to ask
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what
set
of
Hungary's
aristocracy,
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examinations and then serving h1 T I
with diplomas of highest marks. lits I borne the burden of defamation tin- I I I
Famish esti Erect
, complainingly on her young shoul-
family meant him to become a cows-
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