Word: busches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors predicted yesterday that the injury lineman Joe Busch suffered during Saturday's intra-squad football game "may cause repercussions" in the sporting world. Busch, a transfer student from Ames, lowa, walked off the field after a second-period line play with an eyeful of "Unbreakable" contact lens fragments...
Trio No. 4 in D Major, Op. 70 (Adolf Busch, violin; Hermann Busch, cello; Rudolf Serkin, piano; Columbia, 6 sides). This trio ("The Ghost") is of lesser nobility- except for its fine misterioso slow movement -than his Trio No. 6, Op. 97 ("The Archduke"), but here it is splendidly performed. Recording: excellent...
...Reginald Kell, recognized as one of the world's best, let Manhattan judge his respectability in person for the first time. Snowbound in the suburbs, he stomped in the stage door just ten minutes before he was scheduled to start Brahms's B Minor Quintet with the Busch Quartet. But listeners, when they could hear his clarinet over the Busch's whirring blizzard of sound, found nothing snowbound about his playing. Instead, in the slow movement, which he had more, to himself, they heard the kind of soft, singing tone and delicate phrasing which won him fame...
When the great gold brocade curtains parted, the two audiences could see & hear for themselves that the Met hadn't really changed its ways. The opening storm music that the Met's best conductor, Fritz Busch, whipped out of his pit orchestra was only faintly furious. Tenor Vinay sang powerfully, and what top notes he couldn't sing he shouted. But Booth's burnoose could not disguise his lurching, hand-wringing acting. Like most Met stage lovers, he more often sang of his passion to Conductor Busch, at whom he stared fixedly, than to Desdemona...
...Saxon Charm (Universal-International) is an adaptation of the novel by Frederic (The Hucksters) Wakeman about the strange character and conduct of a Broadway producer. Eric Busch (John Payne), a writer, hopes that the great Matt Saxon (Robert Montgomery) will produce his play about Moliere. Saxon is ready and eager, but the process is not entirely simple. Saxon is a man of considerable charm, vitality and at least surface ability; but he is also something of a maniac. His mania is to charm, dominate and, if possible, destroy every person who falls within his spell. The little improvements he insists...