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Table 1: Excerpt from the books of Halló, Amerika!44
Subject Date Cost (Hungarian korona)
Costume contribution for Tibor Halmay45 10 Feb 1925 7,313,000
Costume contribution for Erzsi Péchy 10 Feb 1925 7,725,000
16 pairs of shoes 16 Feb 1925 7,446,000
Body paint and gold paint 16 Feb 1925 11,233,180
Clothes repair, gold lamé fabric 16 Feb 1925 2,240,000
Set painting 16 Feb 1925 90,814,000
Shoes for Erzsi Péchy46 and Irén Biller 16 Feb 1925 6,660,000
Women’s hats 22 Feb 1925 71,000,000
Headpieces 22 Feb 1925 12,000,000
5 bathtubs47 25 Feb 1925 5,026,400
Tailcoat contribution for Kálmán Latabár 26 Feb 1925 5.781,000
Transporting costumes from Vienna 13 Mar 1925 15,000,000
288 70 m of velvet 17 Mar 1925 68,400,000
Lamp paint 8 Mar 1925 720,000
12 yellow top hats 14 Mar 1925 4,944,000
Costumes 30 Apr 1925
Costumes 30 Apr 1925 342,879,100
Gold paint 26 May 1925 524,084,310
Wig material 17 Dec 1924
Géza Faragó 24 costume drawings 23 Dec 1924 3,399,000
20 ladders 29 Dec 1924 8,700,000
16,800,000
19,057,000
According to the bills, the majority of the budget was spent on sets,
costumes and lights. Most of the textiles were so-called noble fabrics (fur,
silk and velvet). The price of the shoes for the two leads was almost as much
as sixteen other pairs (presumably for the English girls). Most of the cos-
tumes and props were made by prominent Budapest manufacturers,48 and
some of them by the Werkstätte für dekorative Kunst in Vienna. The cred-
44 Books of Fővárosi Operett Színház – Vígszínház, OSZK SzT Irattár 374 122/1.
45 According to the practice, certain pieces of the costume wardrobe – which counted
as civilian clothing – were to be provided by the actors themselves (tailcoats, tuxe-
dos etc.).
46 Drawings of Péchy’s shoes were published in Színházi Élet XV, no. 5 (1–7 February
1925): 101, https://epa.oszk.hu/02300/02343/00547/pdf/.
47 Almost a complete bathroom was necessary to build in order to wash off the bronze
paint which the performers were wearing in the oriental scene. After the production
the bathtubs were kept in the theatre, Ernő Szabolcs used one of them during the
staging of Páros csillag [Stars by the pair] because he did not have time to go home. 8
Órai Ujság, November 29, 1927.
48 Shoes from the Simon Holzer Emporium; headpieces by the Kálazdy silk flower
manufacturers, gowns and dresses from the salon of Andor Berkovits.
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Table 1: Excerpt from the books of Halló, Amerika!44
Subject Date Cost (Hungarian korona)
Costume contribution for Tibor Halmay45 10 Feb 1925 7,313,000
Costume contribution for Erzsi Péchy 10 Feb 1925 7,725,000
16 pairs of shoes 16 Feb 1925 7,446,000
Body paint and gold paint 16 Feb 1925 11,233,180
Clothes repair, gold lamé fabric 16 Feb 1925 2,240,000
Set painting 16 Feb 1925 90,814,000
Shoes for Erzsi Péchy46 and Irén Biller 16 Feb 1925 6,660,000
Women’s hats 22 Feb 1925 71,000,000
Headpieces 22 Feb 1925 12,000,000
5 bathtubs47 25 Feb 1925 5,026,400
Tailcoat contribution for Kálmán Latabár 26 Feb 1925 5.781,000
Transporting costumes from Vienna 13 Mar 1925 15,000,000
288 70 m of velvet 17 Mar 1925 68,400,000
Lamp paint 8 Mar 1925 720,000
12 yellow top hats 14 Mar 1925 4,944,000
Costumes 30 Apr 1925
Costumes 30 Apr 1925 342,879,100
Gold paint 26 May 1925 524,084,310
Wig material 17 Dec 1924
Géza Faragó 24 costume drawings 23 Dec 1924 3,399,000
20 ladders 29 Dec 1924 8,700,000
16,800,000
19,057,000
According to the bills, the majority of the budget was spent on sets,
costumes and lights. Most of the textiles were so-called noble fabrics (fur,
silk and velvet). The price of the shoes for the two leads was almost as much
as sixteen other pairs (presumably for the English girls). Most of the cos-
tumes and props were made by prominent Budapest manufacturers,48 and
some of them by the Werkstätte für dekorative Kunst in Vienna. The cred-
44 Books of Fővárosi Operett Színház – Vígszínház, OSZK SzT Irattár 374 122/1.
45 According to the practice, certain pieces of the costume wardrobe – which counted
as civilian clothing – were to be provided by the actors themselves (tailcoats, tuxe-
dos etc.).
46 Drawings of Péchy’s shoes were published in Színházi Élet XV, no. 5 (1–7 February
1925): 101, https://epa.oszk.hu/02300/02343/00547/pdf/.
47 Almost a complete bathroom was necessary to build in order to wash off the bronze
paint which the performers were wearing in the oriental scene. After the production
the bathtubs were kept in the theatre, Ernő Szabolcs used one of them during the
staging of Páros csillag [Stars by the pair] because he did not have time to go home. 8
Órai Ujság, November 29, 1927.
48 Shoes from the Simon Holzer Emporium; headpieces by the Kálazdy silk flower
manufacturers, gowns and dresses from the salon of Andor Berkovits.
190
