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...rough manuscript of a Presidential speech, stay to gossip about old times in Albany, or to ease some useful protege into a key Federal spot. Another intimate of long standing, though he seldom appears in the public eye, is Mr. Roosevelt's onetime (1925-33) law partner, Basil O'Connor, who is personal lawyer both to the President and to Sara Delano Roosevelt. Still another, surprisingly enough, is onetime Attorney General Homer Cummings, who by running the Department of Justice on the basis of political patronage put the New Deal on many a spot. Tommy Corcoran once asked...
Last week, with totalitarianism in the ascendency throughout Europe and democracy fighting for its life, first stirrings of a counter-revolutionary movement to reassert democratic principles became apparent. Once a revolutionary idea of the first order, democracy, reasoned a small group of thoughtful Britons like Basil Kingsley Martin and Cyril Connolly, was a latent force which, if it could be revived in Germany, Italy, Poland and France, would offer the easiest way of crushing Naziism...
...billed him as another Gable. Unlike Actor Gable and the majority of his colleagues, he never talks to fan magazine writers, spurns nightclubs, carries his dislike of Hollywood parties to the point of rudeness. This has made him much sought after and Hollywood's premier hostess, Mrs. Basil Rathbone, is reported this year to have announced that she would trade Stokowski, Rubinstein and Rachmaninoff for one Brent appearance at a party...
...picked New Jerseyite Jimmy Lydon as his Tom Brown, then achieved the casting coup of the century by selecting Billy Halop, ringleader of the Dead End Kids, to play a Rugby blood. Though the Towne publicity department explained this choice as the result of a sensational Halop imitation of Basil Rathbone, alarmed Rugbyites peppered Hollywood with protests that gave the British censors some of the liveliest reading of the year...
...early days of the Ballet Russe, S. Hurok seemed to have met his match in Colonel Wassily de Basil, the Russian who had assembled the troupe. In all published matter, de Basil's name had to be in type equal to, or bigger than, Hurok's. There was much furious measuring of type, and once Hurok had to go out, pastepot in hand, and stick the Colonel's name on some three-sheet posters from which it had been omitted. Today Colonel de Basil manages a rival troupe and earthy S. Hurok, who knows what he likes...