Word: adolphus
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...role of Barbara, and does more than justice to the part. From enthusiasm to discouragement, she is always the artist, and the noticeable suppression of ranting and rank melodrama is quite evident. Barbara is a dignified character and Miss George makes her fascinatingly so. Mr. Ernest Lawford as Adolphus Cusins is very successful, and his interpretation of the Greek professor could not well be improved upon by the present generation of actors. Two members of the cast as originally played in New York were missing, Mr. Louis Calvert, whose voice so suggested the power of Andrew Undershaft, and Mr. Conway...
...museum was built according to the wish of Mr. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, who, with the German Emperor, gave the funds necessary for its construction. An adequate endowment will cover the expenses of the upkeep of the building and collections, and any increase in the collections of the museum will be partially cared for by the special Germanic Museum Fund of $10,000, the proceeds of the Joan of Arc performance, and by the legacy of $50,000 from the estate of one of the museum's benefactors, Mr. Hugo Reisinger...
...year. The building, which will house the large collection of architectural casts, photographs, etc., a considerable portion of which was presented to the University by the German Emperor on the occasion of the visit of Prince Harry a few years ago, has been given to the University by Mr. Adolphus Busch, of St. Louis, at whose request it was that Professor Dr. German Bestelmeyer, of Dresden, the designed of the building, was selected as a representative modern German architect. Professor Bestelmeyer is the noted German architect who recently designed the central hall of the new university buildings at Munich. Professor...
...Germanic Museum building, for which Mr. and Mrs. Adolphus Busch gave about $300,000, is now in process of construction at the corner of Kirkland street and Divinity avenue. The workmen are completing the framework and pouring cement. It is expected that the building will be ready for occupancy next year...
Hugo Reisinger of New York, has been elected president of the Germanic Museum at the University. He succeeds his father-in-law, the late Adolphus Busch, to the position, who was preceded by Carl Sehurz, the first president of the Museum...