granted special status with immediate asylum in the United States. After surviving a bumpy emergency crash landing at Ireland's Shannon Airport, the family finally landed as temporary residents of Camp Kilmer, New Jersey as Elis Island was long boarded up. Balazs's father was soon awarded honorary citizenship in Rhode Island. Upon receiving a Rockefeller scholarship to learn English he moved his family to New York City where he after a year learned English to enjoy a prolific Off and "On Broadway" appearances as well as film and TV career. During his twenty-year stay in the USA he also played at the Lincoln Center in NYC for three years. He was also contracted at the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis and the Music Center in Hollywood LA. Balazs and his brother attended boarding schools with the financial and loving help of Robert P. and Ann Scott Morningstar of NYC. Sandor arranged for Pal Fried, a famous Hungarian painter and former student of Renoir in Paris to provide privately tutelage for Balazs. At nineteen, he continued to study art in Vienna Austria at the Vienna Fine Arts Academy and later at the Angevandte School of Applied Arts financed by his summer jobs in Sweden. He returned to the United States in 1966 before graduation as he did not believe in exhibiting his diploma on gallery walls, rather his paintings. Balazs had his first big break with a one-man show in Chicago at the reputable Distelheim Gallery followed by a commission to paint the portrait of Ray Kroc, McDonald's founder, at the age of twenty-three. Relocating to Hollywood, Calif. following his father in 1967, he became art director at Liberty Records, which was later acquired by United Artist Records. From 1967 to 1971 Szabo lived in L.A. He had a successful one man exhibition on ABC TV . Following the 1971 San Fernando earthquake, he moved to Hawaii with his wife where he spent the next twenty years. After his divorce he remarried and had two sons Sandor in 1982 and Dominik in 1985. While in Hawaii, Balazs painted two murals for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and various corporations, including the AFLA-CIO. He was selected for a solo exhibition in Honolulu's City Hall (the Honolulu Hale) by then Honolulu Mayor Frank Fasi for the nation's Bicentennial in 1976. He exhibited in Chicago, Hawaii, Hong Kong along with Andy Warhol,