Word: basil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bernays, H. B. Lloyd-Jones, and H. J. Wedderburn will be the Oxford speakers, and Yale will be represented by Basil Davenport. H. T. Rowell, and C. H. Willard, of the Senior class...
...judges' stand, a stammering voice said that there had been an accident. The crowd took up the rumor, as crowds will; people excitedly told each other that all 16 had crashed down together on the bleak Hempstead Moors and that all the pilots were dead. Pilot Basil Rowe, flying a Thomas Morse 54E plane with an Aero- marine motor, contradicted this extravagance by buzzing in a winner with an average speed of 102.9 miles an hour; Pilot W. L. Gilmore, in another Morse, was second; one of the 16 did not return. -a Bellanca plane, piloted by Clarence Chamberlain...
...speech last night at the Union, Basil Dean, the visiting English theatrical producer, touched briefly on the constantly recurring cycles of the drama; he explained the new movement, especially that of Soviet Russia; and closed by a review of the defects and merits of the present theatre organization, both here and in England...
...feel very strongly that the future of the English-speaking stage lies here. It is vital, and it is young," said Basil Dean in turung from the problems of England to those of this country. Eugene O'Neil, he considered America's first great author. The Little Theatre, an American movement spreading rapidly over England and the Continent, he declared valuable because it tends to keep the professional stage in touch with the world at large...
...Basil Dean, who is an officer of the Order of the British Empire, has devoted his whole life to the theatre. Besides being the author of numerous plays and pamphlets, among them "Marriages Are Made in Heaven," "The Love Cheats," and more recently "Fifinella." Mr. Dean has been joint managing director of the Drury Lane Theatre in London since 1924 and managing director of St. Martin's Theatre, also in London. Before the war, he was director of the Liverpool Repertory Theatre, and at the outbreak of hostilities, joined the Cheshire Regiment. In 1916 he attained the rank of captain...