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...Adolphus Busch 3rd, 42, elder of the two sons of August A. Busch, was elected president of Anheuser-Busch Inc., succeeding his father who committed suicide fortnight ago. August A. Busch Jr., 34, second son, was made first vice president...
Died. August A. ("Gussie") Busch Sr., 68, famed St. Louis brewer; by his own hand (pistol), following long illness; in his palatial home at Grant's Farm outside St. Louis. Son of Founder Adolphus of the Anheuser-Busch brewery (Bndweiser), "Gussie" Busch carried the family business safely through Prohibition, continued the family tradition of liberal philanthropy. Snubbed by snobbish socialites, he and his family attained an enviable social standing without their help. For the last several months Brewer Busch had been ridden by heart trouble and gout...
...difficulties and makes its point by emphasizing the internationalized Negro, who speaks three languages, and the Jew who, having lost his voice in battle, must pantomime his thoughts. Played by Wladimir Sokoloff of the Moscow Art Theatre, the Jew provides good facial expressions when he helps the German (Ernst Busch) with his mending; good sounds when he bellows wordlessly to warn his comrades of a gas attack. Photographed with an eye to symbolism, Hell on Earth is outspoken propaganda when it ends with the question: "Where are the five men going?'' A caption answers: "To fight...
Sons of the Desert (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy behaving foolishly as members of an idiotic secret order. Fat supercilious Hardy sneaks off to the Chicago convention of the Sons of the Desert by telling his wife (Mae Busch) he is going to Honolulu for his nerves. Laurel, scratching his whisk-broom forelock, accompanies him. On their return, there is confusion because the steamer from Honolulu, on which their wives expected them, has been wrecked. Laurel & Hardy cope with the situation ignominiously, Hardy with a feeble lie, Laurel with a blubbering confession...
...service of international horse shows toward improving the breed and supply of work horses is not nearly so great as its admirers insist. The only work horses showing at the National last week were the eight mountainous Clydesdales of Anheuser-Busch's famed advertising team. Most numerous and most popular of modern show classes are the jumpers. Anyone who knows a martingale from a bridoon knows that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring. Steeplechasers are notoriously slovenly jumpers. Show horses spend...