Word: basil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Adventure. Both Decca and Victor offer recordings of Dickens' Christmas Carol; in Decca's, the Scrooge is Ronald Colman. Columbia puts out Prokofieff's musical fairy tale, Peter and the Wolf. The music is well handled by Leopold Stokowski and his All American Youth Orchestra, but Basil Rathbone's narration lacks the imposing resonance of Richard Hale in the earlier Victor...
International Lady (United Artists) chronicles the adventures of three very nice people: a .U.S. G-Man (George Brent), a Scotland Yarder (Basil Rathbone), and a beauteous spy (Ilona Massey). How this pleasant trio happened to get involved in a Nazi effort to sabotage U.S. shipments of war planes to Britain is a mystery. They should have been having tea together in some cozy...
Ballet Theatre. Mr. Hurok's other troupe, replacing the ballet of Colonel Wassily de Basil is the Ballet Theatre. In its Chicago and Manhattan runs this outfit raised high hopes, but its policies did not suit its backer, Lucia Chase, herself a rich widow, an ambitious dancer. She turned the works over to Hurok, who put in two of his glamor girls (Irina Baronova, Alicia Markova), a new director, conductor and choreographers, all trained in the Russian tradition. When the Ballet Theatre opens in Manhattan next month, its fine U.S. ballet, Billy the Kid, will be missing. Eugene Loring...
Nobody paid much mind to A. B. ("Cyclone") Davis of Dallas, who runs for everything; to a politically unknown ex-West Pointer who buys radio time to demand an immediate declaration of war against Germany, Japan, Italy; to old Basil Muse Hatfield, "Commodore of Inland Rivers," who is campaigning for a five-ocean navy...
...Commodore" Basil Muse Hatfield, "Admiral of the Trinity River" and "King Castor."Somewhere in his mid-70'S, the Commodore has a rural folklore attached to him that is almost as long as his beloved Trinity valley. According to Gulf Coast legend, he was decorated by the British Government for services during the Boer War, has made and lost two oil fortunes, galloped through a handful of Mexican revolutions and was one of the dupes in the Dr. Cook oil scandal. For the past decade, he has ambled the 500 miles of the Trinity River valley in east Texas...