Word: strube
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gordon, Roth. But Mrs. Coolidge is earnestly devoted not only to the highest music but to "international exchange of culture." Last week's Festival featured uncommon-run composers like Cimarosa (The Secret Marriage, sung by Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music). Schonberg, Paul Hindemith, Bohuslav Martinu, Gustav Strube. The Busch Quartet played a "first any where" of Pizzetti and" a "first in the U. S." of Busch himself. This week Busch & Serkin were to play sonatas together in Washington. Then the Quartet was to play at Columbia, Yale and Harvard Universities before returning to Europe...
...Governors carried this policy a step further last month by presenting a radio feature which they felt not the general public but their fellow politicians ought to hear: a speech by Caricaturist David Low of the London Evening Standard, with the Daily Express's Leslie ("Jack") Strube (pronounced Strooby), the ablest of present day British newspaper cartoonists. Excerpts...
Cartoonist Strube of the Daily Express acknowledged the epidemic with a drawing (see cut) in which all Britain's political leaders were disguised as Charlie Chaplin in famed Chaplin films. Central figure was Stanley Baldwin, while the slightly sinister Baron Beaverbrook (as Jackie Coogan) squatted on the curbstone beside him. Not so obvious to U. S. readers was Secretary of State for the Dominions Jim Thomas, sprawled on a sofa while a coronetted earl lit his cigar; Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Snowden tripping up an ineffectual little man in a bowler hat who represents the British taxpayer...