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Died. Gus Van, 80, oldtime vaudeville headliner who, with the late Joe Schenck, formed the singing team of Van and Schenck, which earned $8,000 a week in the '20s; of injuries suffered when struck by an automobile; in Miami Beach. Billed as "the Tiffany Songsters," Van and Schenck harmonized such tuneful memories as My Melancholy Baby and All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum" in a top-hat-and-cane act that made them a mainstay of the Ziegfeld Follies before it all ended when Schenck died...
Congress's power to punish utterances that obstruct military recruiting or war activities was upheld in Schenck v. U.S. (1919), when the Supreme Court sustained the World War I Espionage Acts. In Schenck, however, Justice Holmes also declared that such utterances can be punished only if they create a "clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent. It is a question of proximity and degree." Miller and his lawyers insist that burning a draft card endangers no one except the burner. They point out that all the information...
Knock-knock. Who's there? The Queen of Greece. And much to the surprise of Singer Marti Stevens, 31, daughter of U.S. Movie Magnate Nicholas Schenck, that's just who it was-frightened Queen Frederika, 46, and daughter Princess Irene, 20, fleeing into residential Three Kings Yard from a mob of Greek leftist demonstrators outside Claridge's hotel in London. "I offered her cognac," Marti explained, "but she said she preferred Scotch and soda." A diplomatic choice, for British officials were red-faced with apologies for the apparent snafu of security measures. But Frederika swiftly regained composure...
...Schenck cannot be blamed for the worst performed number, Bach's Sixth Brandenburg Concerto; it was led by Bentley Layton, next year's conductor of the orchestra. Bach scored the Sixth Brandenburg for a chamber orchestra: two violas, two gambas (played by 'celli), a solo cello, continuo and bass. In the first movement, all the instruments except continuo and bass supposedly take turns as soloists, and thereafter only the 'cello and violas play the solo lines. This distribution threw the heaviest burden on the performers in the ensemble least able to hear it. The 'cellos and violas had to struggle...
Nevertheless, Kotin did play with fine tone, and miraculously avoided the hornists' occupational hazard: blurping. Schenck subordinated the orchestra nicely when it accompanied, so that the out-of-tune strings were not too painful. He brought the concerto to an appropriately pompous close...