The cover photo was taken in winter-spring 1938 —André Birabeau’s 1937 comedy Pamplemousse (“Déligyümölcs” / “Grapefruit”) had a successful run at Művész Színház that season, in the translation of Attila Orbók. (The theater was at Nagymező utca 17 in the VI. district of Budapest—before and also after the 1930s, it was and is still called Operettszínház.) Across the street, close to the left edge, the marquee of the movie theater Radius.

[turns out 1938 is oddly incorrect; update now here: andraskisery.substack.c…

I was originally restacking Jared Henderson’s note, substack.com/@jaredhend…, but substack can be weird about two substack links in the same note it seems. Hence link chaos.]

The quality of the image suggests it is from a contemporary magazine—I wonder if the people at RH were able to track it down, or whether they just worked with the scan floating around on line.