Word: busches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi (Busch Chamber Players, Adolf Busch conducting; Columbia, 49 sides, 3 volumes). In presenting all of Handel's great monuments of improvisation for the first time in the U.S., Columbia does not match its laudable ambition with sound achievement. The performance is generally good, though uneven; the recording is not all it should...
...bill nor the Communist coup in Hungary got such space in the Examiner as Beulah and Bud. The Los Angeles press invaded suburban Santa Ana in force, with 30-odd reporters, photographers and such trained seals as Mystery Writer Craig Rice (later fired), Screenwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, and Adela Rogers St. Johns...
Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company, Fritz Busch conducting; Victor, 33 sides, three albums). A re-issue of a fine performance in which sound and surface suffered slightly in the process; a worthy collector's item. Performance: good...
Producer David O. Selznick, who is credited with writing the screenplay himself (from a Niven Busch novel), spent an unprecedented amount of money on this picture (reported to be $6 million, plus $2 million for promotion). By giving moviegoers a sort of super-sumptuous scrapbook of all the titillating, sure-fire elements that experience has convinced him they want, he figured to earn his millions back-plus a sizable profit. Box-office returns in Los Angeles, where Duel has been showing simultaneously in two theaters for the last couple of months (and is reportedly outgrossing Gone With the Wind...
Teresa Wright (who played Ney 's bride in Mrs. Miniver) and Cinemauthor Niven Busch told the world they expected a child next October...