Foreign Language Press Survey

There is a great despair in Burnside, as the shops of the Illinois Central were shut down last week. In those shops were employed mostly the older Hungarians of Burnside, those who are in the descending years of their lives. They let themselves be persuaded to a strike, demanding a 20% raise

The Hungarian Day preparation committee held its account meeting last week, and its treasurer, John Bonifert, gave out a statement, that the total income of the Hungarian Day was $677.80, derived from the ads and the selling of the button-signs, against which there was a total of $517.80 expe

A highly successful festival in the life of Hungarian society was that in which the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church in Burnside had on the occasion of the dedication of the new parish home. The Catholics of the vicinity of Chicago also were represented in great numbers on this festival occasi

The arrangments committee of the University Singers' Choir, which in the spring gave a concert in Chicago, has sent its accounts to the Hungarian press in America to be printed in the papers. They are made up with the most painstaking adherence to detail and are a thoroughly conscientious pie

The Hofbrau which is the most liked meeting place for the Chicago Hungarians, will in the future enjoy an increasing popularity. As the place is very often too crowded, Louis Wagner, the owner, took over the adjoining store, and the Hofbrau will be twice as large, as it was. The new hall, whi

The newly discovered star of the Chicago City Opera Company, who conquered the public, and the great crowd of critics and singing artists with her beautiful voice, is,in fact,a Hungarian girl. Her father, Emil Sachs, is a meat merchant of Hungarian descent. The young, not yet eighteen years o

Despite the inclement weather condition of the seventeenth, several hundred people gather in the church hall to celebrate the Grape-Vintage Festival Dance. Among the crowd the Ifjusagi Kor dancers could be observed most easily because of their Magyar costumes of many brilliant colors. Long si

The Hungarian Society celebrated on November 12 the twenty-fifth anniversary of the wedding of Mr. and Mrs. Arpad Sipos in the Congress Hotel. On this occasion Mr. Sipos showed the cinema pictures which he took in Europe last summer when they were touring there on their vacation. He showed, w

This Sunday Burnside was the seat of a magnificent festival. The South Side Reformed Church celebrated the completion of a quarter century of existence. The whole congregation, children as well as grownups, had been making preparations of all kinds for this festival for several months, and th

A long cherished dream of Catholic Hungarians living on the northside is near its realization. Hungarian Catholics of the northside are twice those living in Burnside, yet they cannot boast of even a satisfactory church life, on account of the fact, that they are scattered all over the norths

My table is all covered with newspapers. Some of them are newspapers from the old country which arrived this week; some again are the American Hungarian newspapers. Involuntarily,I reach first for the American Hungarian papers, and as I look them over, I am surprised to see how clever their e

The San Carlo Opera Company gave a contract to Rozsika Szabo', the favorite of the Chicago Hungarians, who was Hungarian Queen of the Chicago Auto-Show in 1936. Miss Szabo' will be away from Chicago for five months, and her first station will be Detroit, where she will dance next week a solo

Saint Emery Roman Catholic Church is sponsoring donations for the purchase of a new church,and has ask Tarsalgo Association for financial assistance. As expected, the Association at its annual meeting, last Sunday, decided to donate. $100 to the Church Buying Fund. The members of this gallant

The new school of designing and painting, which was founded on the principles of the Bauhaus of Dessau, and which is known as the New Bauhaus, is under the leadership of the famous Hungarian professor Louis Moholy-Nagy. It will begin a new evening semester on February 7, for those who work or

The Tarsalgo, oldest and largest association in Chicago, which always enthusiastically supports every Hungarian movement, will be officially represented at the great Hungarian Camp meeting in Detroit. This decision was decided at the last meeting of the Tarsalgo, which was held Sunday. The as

p.2....The South Chicago Roman and Greek Catholic St. Stephen Sick Benefit Society will dedicate its new flag with elaborate ceremony on Sunday, June 21, at the Magyar Home at 1:30 P.M. The procession will leave the Magyar Home to march to the Hungarian Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady of Hu

This section is about 65% Hungarian and Italian. There are also Poles, Ukrainians, Bohemians and Russians. There is no other recreation center in this neighborhood but the settlement. It is not sectarian and takes all comers. Classes are given in citizenship, English, dram