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...30th Street, Manhattan, he would tell proudly of the days when he had persuaded Theodore Roosevelt to eat pigs' feet and calf's head, when he had warned President Taft, a great steak-eater, against digging his grave with his teeth. In his palmy days August Janssen owned 20 Hofbraus. He spent $1,000,000 advertising JANSSEN WANTS TO SEE YOU.* But in 1921 Prohibition was withering the Hofbrau trade. And more distressing to August Janssen was his son Werner, a senior at Dartmouth. Father Janssen had offered him $250,000 if he would stop his music-tinkering...
...Werner Janssen's musical way had been hard. At Dartmouth he conducted a restaurant orchestra, waited on table between pieces. After graduation he went to Boston, sold sheet music by day, earned $3 a night playing the piano for Leo Reisman at the Hotel Brunswick. From there he went to New York, started writing musical shows. But his ambition reached higher and his energy was tremendous. New Year's Eve in New York was his lucky piece. He went to Cleveland to hear Nikolai Sokoloff play it, promptly got a radio job conducting the Guardian Trust Orchestra...
...Europe Werner Janssen had chances. He has conducted in Rome, Turin, Milan, Berlin, Budapest. Herbert F. Peyser, meticulous foreign critic for the New York Times, went to Finland last winter when Janssen conducted an all-Sibelius program in the composer's presence. Critic Peyser wrote the report that won Janssen his Philharmonic engagement. Said he: "Sibelius turned to me visibly shaken and stammered, 'For the first time I am hearing my work exactly as I conceived...
Conductor Janssen likes to have people forget his Hofbrau background. But Father Janssen proudly asks everyone he meets now if they know about his son Werner. Father Janssen is happy, also, on his own account. Repeal business has picked up in the old restaurant on 30th Street, the only one he has left. And he intends to branch out again, open a big place in Rockefeller Center. The new Hofbrau may be ready next winter when Werner's time comes to conduct the Philharmonic...
...many have inferred that the senator is slipping. This is not so. Because of his redistribution of wealth plan his popularity has grown; and if we did not want him in Congress we would recall him, without help from a few out-of-state self-appointed brain-trusters. J. Janssen, (Tulane Eng. Student...