Word: basil
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Return of Sherlock Holmes (Paramount). When Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was writing the stories that became the basis of modern detective fiction, he clearly attached no importance to frightening people and wasted no time on realism. What kept him writing was his naive pleasure in being mysterious. Director Basil Dean has retained Doyle's point of view wonderfully well, so that instead of an overwrought modern thriller The Return of Sherlock Holmes is good fun. Obviously relishing his role as the author relished his mysteries, Clive Brook, wearing sideburns, in a woolen hat and old-fashioned loungesuits, knows just...
...which attended a painting of the same kind, about St. Innocent's cloister, at Paris. The original verses were made by Machaber, a German, in his own language. This shows the antiquity of the subject, and the origin of the hint from which Holbein executed his famous painting at Basil...
...begin work [in his father's office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate it to show how public houses can and should be run. I think we should...
...Church of Phanar on the Golden Horn of Constantinople, ranking patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church, witnessed a solemn rite. Last month Basil III, ecumenical patriarch of the church, died full of years (87). The Holy Synod of Stamboul last week chose his successor from three grave, bearded Metropolitans. Broussa's Nicodemus, Nicaea's Benjamin they passed over. For Photius, Metropolitan of Dercos, 17 out of 18 of the Holy Synod voted...
...replaced by cinematic values and which is skillfully acted by film players trained to understand the camera. The voices come out clearly and naturally, not yet as clearly as real people talking, but modulated so that you forget the sound device. Best shots: Norma Shearer wringing a proposal from Basil Rathbone; Norma Shearer stealing back into her room with her hostess' pearls...