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...back on the train 36 miles up the track and making an off-the-cuff speech to a crowd of 5,000 at Mexico, Mo. He left his special car for an automobile at Robertson, Mo. and arrived at Beer Baron August Anheuser Busch Jr.'s manicured, 550-acre estate, Grant's Farm, at 6:05. To the horror of his Secret Service guard, he immediately climbed aboard a horse-drawn coach to inspect a herd of buffalo, elk and deer which roam the Busches' acres. Then he joined the granddaddy of garden parties (200 servants...
Written and produced by Novelist Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, The Capture is told in a series of flashbacks that explain too much about Lew Ayres and not enough about the rest of the cast. Despite some good photography, a stark Mexican background, and a fine feeling for place and incident, the indecisive plot suffers from the same fuzziness that clutters up the dialogue...
...they have since the 1870s, music-loving Cincinnatians packed the flower-banked Music Hall (capacity 3,500) to hear and applaud everything. They got no beer & pretzels program from Busch. In five days and five concerts, he offered them dumpling-heavy portions of the music he loves best: Bach, Bruckner, Mahler Mozart, Verdi (the Requiem), Wagner. On the last night, the audience in the Music Hall stood up to close the festival by roaring out the "Hallelujah Chorus" from Handel's Messiah...
Said 60-year-old Fritz Busch, who had rehearsed his singers and players within an inch of their lives, "Yah, it's lots of work. But it's marvelous." One thing that delighted him was the fact that "this year we had 13 soloists and nine of them are American-trained. That couldn't have happened 25 years ago. It shows what festivals like this are doing...
Even more heart-warming to Conductor Busch, who 17 years ago took a stand against Hitler and consequently lost his job at the Dresden Opera, was the fact that in Cincinnati he found "community expression in the best sense of the word. Boys & girls, old ones and young ones, even the little kids, all join together and they don't bother about the races. Yah," says Fritz Busch, "it is great...