Priest at Hollywood

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 134, 4 December 1930, Page 21

Priest at Hollywood

A Budapest newspaper relates the strange career of a Hungarian priest who made a pilgrimage from America to Budapest to take part in recent festivities. Dezso Voinich was the son of a wealthy nobleman living in Bacska, and after doing military service in a Hussar regiment he astonished his family by deciding to be.come a priest. He concluded his theological studies at Innsbrucß, and after the death of the prelate of Szabadka succeeded to one of the richest parishes in pre-war Hungary. The young priest became very popular in Szabadka, and at the end of the war was made candidate for a vacant bishopric. : By the Treaty of Trianon, ■ however, the territory became Serbian, . and as it remained under the jurisdiction of the Hungarian Cardinal of Kaloesa, the clashing of national interest made life unsupportable for the clergy. Father Voinich laid aside his cassock, and travelled to America, where he received an engagement with the Paramount Film Company at Hollywood. When the film in which he was to play the leading part was about to be photographed, Father Voinich disappeared, and was not heard of ■ again for years, until he was discovered in a small Hungarian American village, filling the position of parish priest.

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