![]() ![]() Roosevelt, who was an award-winning champion of smiling indeed, but how many people would recognize him in 1937 in Budapest, and how much it was appropriate to teach his smile there in that year. The laughing man is President Franklin D. In the midst of them, the portrait of a laughing man.” Het Leven, 1937. “Outside of the Smile School of Budapest, six people wearing masques which forces smile on their faces. “In the Smile School of Budapest, a white-robed teacher points on the smile of Mona Lisa with his pointer.” Het Leven, 1937. The Dutch tabloid Het Leven published in the same year, 1937 a series of five photos – the five illustrations of this post –, which show you how the clients are taught how to smile in the “Smile School of Budapest”. So it is very strange that in Budapest they had to guard against the epidemic caused by it.īut the news is also supported by another source. ![]() ![]() All this at a time, when the song, with a privately published score, was not played at all, had no recording at all, and was unknown in Hungary, so much so that even the fashionable bar pianists did not know what it was when foreign guests asked them to play it. An unprecedented international press career started on the wake of these articles. What is more, this same newspaper attacked the song as inherently inspiring suicide, and demanded it be banned. The lyricist, László Jávor, who was also the criminal reporter of the 8 O’Clock News, mentioned in his reports on seventeen consecutive suicides, that the scores of Gloomy Sunday were found next to the corpse. It is, however, probable that this was one of the largest, deliberately constructed hoaxes of the century. Gloomy Sunday, the popular 1933 hit of Rezső Seress was in fact propagated by the press as “the Suicide Song” or simply “the Killer Song” in more than a hundred languages all over the world, claiming that dozens, or even hundreds of people committed suicide because of it. On the wall, two smiles and the picture of Mona Lisa.” Het Leven, 1937. “In the Smile School of Budapest, a woman looks at the smiling woman’s faces held in front of her. Jeno says the methods employed at his school, aided by better business conditions in Budapest, are making smiling popular, and before long it is hoped that the name of Budapest will be change to the City of Smiles.” The organisers have now a regular school and guarantee to teach the Roosevelt smile, the Mona Lisa smile, the Clark Gable smile, the Dick Powell smile, the Loretta Young smile, and various other types, the rates varying according to the difficulties encountered. ![]() It was originally began more as a joke by a Professor Jeno and a hypnotist named Binczo, but somehow it caught on. Now, however, a “Smile Club” has been inaugurated to counteract the suicide craze. The favorite method adopted by most Budapest melancholics is drowning, and patrol boats are stationed along the boundary near the bridges to rescue citizens who seek consolation in the dark waters of the Danube. Some of them are alleged to have been inspired by the Budapest song, “Gloomy Sunday”, but, be that as it may, the suicide rate in Budapest is definitively very high. Although a magnet for tourists from all over the world, Budapest has for several years been known to its own people as The City of Suicides.īudapest suffered badly after the war and has received unpleasant publicity from the number of cases of self-destruction occurring every year within its boundaries. ![]()
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