REFUSED A FORTUNE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 122, 25 May 1936, Page 10

REFUSED A FORTUNE

Count Joseph Tisza, grandson of Hungary’s former Premier, Count Tis za, has caused a sensation by refusing an inheritance of one million perigo and a half. The young count, who is 18 years old, and is preparing for matriculation at the college of Debrecen, ha.resigned the fortune in favour of the Budapest National Theatre’s pension fund. The fortune was bequeathed to Count Tissa by Mrs Bolony, whose husband, the former director of the Kolozsvar Theatre, was Count Tisza’s godfather. As there was no relationship between the two families, tho relatives of Mrs Bolony have attacked the will. Count Tisza states that his refusal of the fortune is approved by his whole family, as one of he conditions of the

will demand his assumption of th© name of Bolony. In addition to this, the high duties payable by a private recipient of the fortune would make it as much a drawback as the benefit, whereas the National Theatre receives the money free of inheritance duties. The young count has attracted notice in Debrecen as the author of a oneact political drama called “The Painted Emperor.” In this play the two principal characters represent two opposing political views. In spite of his debut in literature, Count Tisza states that he intends to take up politics when he had finished his studies at the university and at the school of economics. The latter studies he considers indis* ■ pensable, as Hungary’s policy is based ■ on economics.