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...Brooklyn, when Ringling Circus' black bear Bruno found his cage unlocked he strolled up a fire escape to see the town a not squad at his heels. Stopping halfway up, Bruno looked at the police; the police looked at Bruno. Up floated the voice of Trainer Joe Meyers: "Hey, you! What are you doing up there?" Bruno peered down at Meyers, padded back down between respectful rows of police to his cage...
...example: In March, 1933, the Rumanian government discovered that the Skoda works had evaded taxes to the extent of 65,000,000 let (something over $600,000). It looked into the safe of Bruno Seletski, Skoda's agent in Rumania, and discovered that he had distributed more than 1,000,000 let (close to $10,000,000 among the "right" officials of both the government and the army, and their wives and mistresses, and that hundreds of thousands had gone to "charity" and "entertainment" because the beneficiaries "will be used by us some...
...season. In its Save-Our- Symphony campaign (TIME, May 7 et ante) there had bobbed up many a contributor who wanted to know more about what U. S. composers were accomplishing. To that end Werner Janssen was signed up to serve with such established European conductors as Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter, Otto Klemperer. Rochester was unwilling to commit itself on Dixie Fugue, a blaring, dissonant finale to a Louisiana Suite played heretofore only in Europe. But when the horns and kettle drums were still, Conductor Hanson held up the concert until Werner Janssen came down the aisle...
...shut out. Jeffrey, whose time was spent getting himself seduced against a literary background, had luckily acquired a solid woman in his wife Norah. He was always thankful to come home to her, but neither would he let her have any baby but himself. Bruno was a too-coherent professor whose Jewish intelligence paralyzed his will. When the Magazine he loved to talk about starting finally came to the point of starting, he let it fizzle out in a gargantuan defeatist joke. Though he loved the girl he might have had for the asking and knew she was headed...
...critics. Critics pay little attention to Fannie Hurst, but plain readers have made her one of the most popular dishes on the counter. Anitra's Dance tells of a wild household of hyphenated Americans noisily existing on Manhattan's Riverside Drive. Head of the house was Papa Bruno, famed musician who somehow managed to do his composing in the same room with a squabbling family bridge game. Other dwellers under the stormy roof were his peasanty wife, a fat daughter and her secretive husband, a loafing son with whom Bruno was always on the verge of a dangerous...