The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-06-11
Alan Dale in the New York American.

Alan Dale in the New York American.
 ~ UDAPEsT, HUNGARY.-This is
 NA the redoubtable city of indiges-
 s tible consonants. more indiges- tible eoulish and mist indigestible all night entertainments The New Workers endure their roof garden inanities until midnight; the good people of Budapest re- main until a. m. Actually until the sun his rig
 I was lowed last night (still deaf mute from consonant-itis) to the most famous open alr resort of Budapest-a sort of am bassadeurs affair, called Os Budavara, and pronounced heaven only knows how, for I don't and never shall. It Is at the end of Budapest's subway-a queer little concern that looks like toy, and is fear fully cute. To begin the evening my pilot Chank heaven for him) took me to the Vampetitch, a garden where you hear a Hungarian band q thought they were all in New Yorlx) and drink coffee. Then we proceeded to a garish looking, much lighted, highly decorated enclosure-the famous Os-Budavara Admission 20 cents, side shows extra)
 Here-sez I to myself sez lam I going to the real Hungarian article-something
 that outside of Budapest would be an i'm
 possibility, for a show that begins at
 D. m and ends at a. m. must assuredly possess charms that we, in our artless
 way, wot not of. l was introduced to the
 manager, Adolf Friedman, who was said to be "an American,' and my heart
 leaped at the idea of speaking English.
 But I soon found an English chat inn possible. The gut herr could speak brok- enly for a few pleasing moments, but he was more Hungarian than any gou- lash and after an ineffective struggle,
 during which he told me he had heard of Weber & Field and Keith & Proctor, l let him slide.
 The Os-Budavara Is large garden, cop
 iously lighted. It doesn't look very much
 unlike the Moulin Rouge in Paris, and
 the people seem just as sad, and sadder No tourists go to the Os-Budavara. It IS l filled with the golden youth of Budapest, of both sexes. There are fountains and cafes, and the show for which you pay l another fare) attracts most of the atten- | tion.
 | Alas No sooner had I entered than
 found my Budapestian entertainment was
 being doled out by turn billed as
 "New-Yorke Comedian Four" with this
 legend attached: "Amerika legkomikusabp-
 utcaeneKesei." The turn in question was
 the usual quartette nuisance, and as sat in the Os-Budavara I began to grow
 restive and to wonder if New York's vau- deville tentacles spread everywhere. i After that another American turn, | called the Reed-Pinaud company in a
 sketch called "Tingl-Tangl,' with this
 legend, "hirneves nemajatekcsoport fell
 epte." It was certainly foolish enough for all that and more. It was foolish enough for anything on earth. Four performers" sang songs and danced,
 while supes in property private boxes
 looked on, and got hit in the neck. Oranges were thrown at them, and gen. eral buffet and razze ensued. I could
 have wept in sheer anguish. But the
 Budapestians appeared to enjoy it in their queer way The turn was so long drawn out, so pulled into interminability, that 1 wasn't surprised 10 near that the snow lasted till a. m. But I was surprised
 to hear that. even In Budapest, anybody could be found to sit it out.
 Other features of the bill were Charles
 Depford described as ''letamutavanyai,"
 the Sisters Anderson, equilibrists; Fred eriko Barbalogna, Zene and Mrs. Maude Wulff. They were just about equal to
 our roof garden folks, and I think that tells the tale. But the enclosure was
 crowded; and around it was dense gath
 ering of entertainment hungry Buda- pestians, who had no intention of going home till morning.
 The show at the Os-Budavara proved to
 me not that Budapestians were gayer, frivolouser and more up-to-date than amusement seekers in New York or Lon don or Paris Gas they are supposed to | bel, but simply that they have greater powers of endurance. They can stand it. | We can't We want to go home to | mother at a seemly hour. They don't. | They don't appear to own mothers. The people of Budapest must have a constr tuition of steel nerves of iron. will pnws,