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...Island. The fishing was atrocious. First day's catch was one bass and "two miserable what-nots," one of which attached itself to the Presidential line. Next day's was just as bad. The third day of the cruise, when the President's onetime law partner Basil O'Connor joined the party, there was no fishing at all. Stormbound and anchored off Block Island, the President resigned himself to a press conference. Fourth day, en route back to Hyde...
...presented his present protege, Bobby Breen, in his third leading role. Nine-year-old Actor Breen (real name: Isidore Borsuk), whose Irish nomenclature imperfectly disguises him and whose shrill nasal singing tends to raise the hackles of the sensitive, is one of radio's gifts to the cinema. Basil Rathbone, who is forced by the exigencies of his role to regard this child with affection, was never cooler...
...biscuits are from tea biscuits, the tots of Make A Wish are discovered in a paradisal boys' camp, where Chip (Bobby Breen), although a new boy, becomes an instant favorite with everybody, apparently because of his bugle-like voice. Across the lake from the camp John Selden (Basil Rathbone) is summering, trying to get a start on his new operetta. Chip and Selden strike up a beautiful, laughing friendship, the operetta goes forward by leaps & bounds, and when Chip's mother, Irene (Marion Claire), comes for a visit and turns out to be a singer...
...Massine had seen while taking part in the ballet, the Italians had conversed earnestly with Colonel de Basil, and as the dancer well knew, the tall impresario had been dickering to sign them up for his troupe before Massine could get off the stage. Massine, too, wanted the No. 1 de Basil to take charge of another ballet group. But Massine's onstage frenzies and his backstage pleadings were no use: Colonel de Basil won Radice (and Fabbri) with offers of $700 apiece per month on any U. S. tour he might take them on, $450 in England...
Last week U. S. balletomanes learned more of the split between Massine and de Basil-a split which forecast an international ballet war-when word came from England that the two had taken certain differences into court. Dancer Massine, whose current contract with Colonel de Basil expires Sept. 15, had joined another company, notified Colonel de Basil that he claimed exclusive right to all the ballets, many of them drawing cards, for which Massine had devised the choreography. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Luxmoore of Chancery Court the two parties brought this question: can property right be claimed...