the pair moves into the "woodrow hotel" in new york, where they receive numerous contract offers from fellow countrymen living in the city. kabos accepts the manager position of a small hungarian troupe, but in letters he complained that his colleagues are without talent. they go for a 2 week long tour including philadelphia, trenton, passaic. as he described, movie theatre owners tried to ruin their shows, and seats were half empty, even while entry costs were less than half the price of movie tickets. in april 1939 the group continues to tour in chicago, detroit, with kabos making extra appearances, often 4 times a day. but even as such, earnings remained miserable. they situation gets worse when his wife is moved to hospital with bile failure, needing instant operation, taking away most of their spare money. sándor incze, a renowned theatrical figure also in exile, offers kabos a role in new york, but after travelling there, he declines, partly by discovering that he doesn't speak the theatrical english language. while in hungary, the attacks again him become more powerful, even questioning his nationality. by the summer of 1939, they start to run out of money. kabos arranges a second tour with offhand groups, to mild success. he starts to build a small theatre room out of a restaurant of his friend, but fails after one month. playing in small acts once-twice a week, the couple gets enough money for basic food, otherwise they make walks in the central park. kabos wrote a small book of his life, directed an amateur movie sketch to tour with, and a 3-hour revue, all failing. with the help of a friend, he gets a small role in one of the broadway theatres, but has a heart attack on stage. his doctor orders him to stop going to rehearsals, but he denies. barely surviving two other seizures, he is moved to a hospital, where, after lying in oxygen tent unconsciously for two weeks, dies on 6 october 1941.