Word: hofbrau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Singing everything from German Trinklieder to selections from "The Chocolate Soldier," seven Harvard men have landed a job entertaining at Gundlach's Hofbrau...
...singers are: Charles P. Berger, Jr. '41, A. Ross Borden, Jr. '39, Wendall N. Calkins '39, Raymond F. Farwell '40 David D. Henry '41, Edward M. Steel, Jr. '40, and Robert E. L. Strider 2nd '39. They intend to continue delighting the Hofbrau guests every Saturday night until the beer gives...
...disappointed German was to be found a dozen years ago struggling to carry on the first U. S. Hofbrau. In his dark-paneled restaurant on 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...
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...
...head waiter, shouted "Janssen wants to see you." To remind himself to reprimand the boy Janssen jotted the phrase in his notebook. Its catchiness appealed to him and he repeated it on 50 postcards, mailed them to his friends. Next night, he swears, all 50 appeared at his Hofbrau...