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...during Prohibition, when it carried on with near-beer, was Prima Co., one of the only five Chicago breweries that survived the dry years. Founded in 1892, Prima built its name on brands like Rienzi. With the coming of Repeal the sons of the founder, Hilmar and L. Wainright Ernst, recapitalized their old family business, sold some stock to the public. Early in this revitalizing program, the Ernsts ran into difficulties, had to borrow heavily from two Chicago banks, First National and Harris Trust & Savings...
...impressed with her wiry, imperfect voice, scarcely at its best in the open air. They thought her dance of the Seven Veils more realistic than graceful. Ivan Ivantzoff was more secure as cowardly King Herod. Conductor Alexander Smallens made the score taut and exciting, shared honors with Stage Director Ernst Lert who has produced creditable Salomes at Freiburg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, Basle, Milan. Manhattan applauded the ingenuity with which Lert changed the Stadium platform into an Oriental terrace and clothed the singers in costumes out of Edmond Dulac...
Long, fuzzy-headed Ernst Panenka enrolled with the Boston Symphony in 1930. He was such a good bassoonist that Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky soon had him soloing with the orchestra. Last year Star Bassoonist Panenka began to play so poorly that Koussevitzky demoted him, threatened to fire him unless he improved. Suing for divorce in Dedham. Mass, last week. Bassoonist Panenka blamed his failing musicianship on his wife Rosa who, he alleged, threw dishes, slammed doors and whistled while he practiced. Divorce was granted...
...Slim Summerville) in the U. S. art of gum-chewing (see cut). In the square of his native Klosterburg, frail Lieutenant Ludwig (Richard Cromwell) is stripped of his insignia by revolutionary ruffians. Romping Willy (Andy Devine) disperses the gang with an apple which he pretends is a hand grenade. Ernst (John King) breaks with his old sweetheart, shuns his family because he cannot endure the leisure and quiet of home. Frustrated and disillusioned, Ernst joins his mates nightly in rowdy drinking fests. Tjaden, wooing the mayor's daughter, gaily drapes bologna strips about his neck while hungry mobs riot...
Died. Captain Ernst August Lehmann, 51, German Zeppelin commander; of burns suffered in the Hindenburg disaster; at Lakewood...