Word: basil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oilman lately divorced (TIME, July 22); to Mrs. Basil Miles, Budapest-born widow of the late U. S. Commissioner to the International Chamber of Commerce and onetime wife of Peabody Savell, U. S. engineer; in Paris...
Another reform of King Ahmed Zogu has been to encourage Greek Orthodox prelates among his subjects to proclaim at Tirana a new Holy Synod of Albania, with Archbishop Bessario Javani as its President. In Constantinople the Most Holy Patriarch Basil of the Greek Orthodox Church was incensed, last week, to the point of anathematizing the new Albanian Synod. Soon he unfrocked with awful and pious curses both Albanian Archbishop Javani and his ecclesiastical accomplice the Archimandrite Tjamzi of Berat...
Born in the U. S., educated in France, living in England, Author Sedgwick has a fine sense of the best elements in all three countries. In private life she is Mme. Basil de Selincourt, lives in England, tends her roses, sings Brahms and Haydn oratorios in the village choral society which her husband conducts...
Francine Larrimore may be seen in an amusing comedy of manners, "Let Us Be Gay" and Basil Sydney and Mary Ellis are together again in A. A. Milne's slight and not too entertaining whimsy, "Meet the Prince." That frail poetic tragedy, "Paola and Francesca", replete with pretty costumes and phrases such as "the stars in palpitating cosmic passion held" has Jane Cowl in the starring role and Walter Hampden is playing "Cyrano" once more up-town at his Sixty-second Street Theatre. Margaret Anglin does valiant work in making a drama of tragic married life, "Security" convincing and next...
...does not receive, except from two members of the cast, Cecile Dixon and J. M. Kerrigan. The others are so conscious of the whimsy with which they are dealing that it vanishes in their eager hands. This is particularly true of Mary Ellis and in a lesser degree of Basil Sydney. However, not even heavy performances can completely weigh down ebullient dialog. There are worse places in life than Pooh Corner...