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...time his grandson (Anheuser-Busch's current president) was born in 1899, Adolphus Busch was a legendary figure in St. Louis. At his 20-room brick mansion he lavishly entertained such guests as Sarah Bernhardt and Teddy Roosevelt; he bought homes in Pasadena, Calif. and Cooperstown, N.Y., bought himself a manor on Germany's Rhine, had himself painted by Sweden's Anders Zorn. Traveling to New York in his private car, he passed out gold coins on all sides. Adolphus Busch could afford it. When he died in 1913, he left his family an estate valued...
Antiques & Poetry. A couple of producers dug into the trunks and brought forth some spectacular antiques. Audio Rarities offered Golden Age of the Theater ($5.95), a horror of prehistoric recording in which the voices of the great dead can occasionally be distinguished. Among them: Sarah Bernhardt, who sounds like a harp seraphic tuned to the emotional level of Mother Machree; E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, who coo as ponderously as a pair of 200-lb. doves. In "If I'm Elected . . ." ($4.98), Heritage caught a tumult of political echoes in what appears to have been an ear trumpet...
Bohrod's most prized ($4,500) fool-the-eye painting in the Madison exhibit is Still Life with Portraits, a weathered door hung with a worn horseshoe, a bugle, an ancient pistol and pictures of Lincoln, Sarah Bernhardt and Henry Clay. Another achieves part of its realism because it was done in collaboration with his seven-year-old son, Neil. Against the usual wooden background, it shows a leaky water pistol, Halloween masks, a torn piece of a newspaper photo and a child's slate. On the slate is a drawing of a witch-by Neil...
...William Sharon, who made millions in the Comstock lode and never got over his miner's habit of carrying a pistol, the $5,000,000 Palace was then considered the most luxurious hotel in the world. It had 800 rooms, and the smallest was 16 ft. square. Sarah Bernhardt stayed in an eight-room, suite with her parrot and baby tiger; General Grant came as a Civil War hero, had to mumble speeches when he lost his false teeth. Kipling shuddered at the spittoons, called the hotel "a seven-storied warren of humanity." President Harding died there...
Director Curtis Bernhardt (The Merry Widow) has done some inspired casting: Peter Ustinov plays the Prince of Wales and Robert Morley his potty papa. These two amiable monsters, as shapelessly alike as two corpulent snails, seem to be engaged in a contest to see who can stick his long-stemmed eyeballs farthest out of his head. Morley, as the monarch who "talks to trees [and] mixes paint with his feet," is the winner by a cornea...