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...establish an operatic festival of similar quality in England. In 1933 at Copenhagen he unfolded his scheme to round-faced Conductor Fritz Busch, German political exile and famed former conductor of the Dresden Opera. Enthusiastic Maestro Busch called in the help of his expatriated countryman, Stage Director Carl Ebert. With Austrian Impresario Rudolf Bing as General Manager, the first Glyndebourne opera season was launched. It lasted two weeks; the audience for the opening performance numbered twelve. But Christie, Busch, Ebert and Bing were undiscouraged. The press gave them a big hand. In 1936 they enlarged their auditorium, planned a bigger...
...three weeks members of the Senate Public Lands Committee have been busily investigating Franklin Roosevelt's nomination of Ebert K. Burlew as First Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Turned up in the process have been lurid stories of "secret police," embezzlement, telephone-tapping (TIME, Jan. 31). But though they kept at work just as busily last week, they turned up only one fact that was even faintly lurid: Harold Ickes has three expensive Government Packards (one sedan, two limousines...
When First Assistant Secretary of the Interior Theodore Walters died last November, eleven Western Senators suggested to President Roosevelt that someone from the West be nominated to succeed him. Mr. Roosevelt nominated instead Mr. Ebert K. Burlew. Few courtiers can stay in favor through more than one dynasty, but Mr. Burlew, administrative assistant to the last four Secretaries of the Interior in a row, was a particular favorite of Republican Hubert Work, is still a particular favorite of New Dealer Harold Ickes. Under Mr. Ickes he has been virtually manager of the Interior Department. He has been constantly embroiled with...
Product of Chicago's school of fireball journalism, Author Hecht covered Latin uprisings, in Berlin followed the Spartacists' uprising against the Ebert Government, ran the Chicago Literary Times, a bohemian and radical sheet. He and Charles MacArthur, another Chicago newspaper bravo, wrote The Front Page in 1928 and thereby hit professional pay dirt. During a fling with MacArthur in film production, a venture that improved their backgammon game but not their bank accounts, the pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium...
Said Grandmama Ebert: "It's a nice piece of work, but it ought to be draped and it's going to be draped. I've brought Henrietta up right...