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...Miami-to-Chicago plane one day last week, Basil Walters, executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, hunched over a cream-colored sheet of hotel stationery, cautiously shielding what he wrote from the eyes of the stranger sitting beside him. "Stuffy"' Walters had a secret...
Like the book, the film tells the story of Skeffington's last campaign. His henchmen go out and get their Irish up, and the whole South Side is voting mad on election day. But this time the banks (Basil Rathbone) and the church (Donald Crisp) and the big newspaper (John Carradine) combine against the old man. Their candidate is just a "6ft. hunk of talking putty," but what with a pretty wife, four kids and a rented dog, he looks great on television; and so he carries the day. All alone, the old man walks through the night...
...Basil O'Connor, president of the National Foundation (formerly for Infantile Paralysis), first layman ever to be so honored...
Laurinda Barrett was an admirable Portia, and Robert Blackburn a forceful Bassanio. But Basil Langton failed to give much color to the title role of Antonio...
...Basil Rathbone is an old pro; Geraldine Page is a young pro. These two stars, collaborating in Terence Rattigan's expertly written Separate Tables, provided the Boston Summer Theatre with its best show of the season...