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...repertoire this season there are 25 ballets. 13 more than in the first winter. In the company there are 65 dancers, several of whom still travel with their fathers or mothers. In charge of them all is Colonel Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who was so determined not to see Russian ballet die out that he organized the troupe, named it "Monte Carlo" for Princess Charlotte of Monaco who gave him his first backing. Colonel de Basil's purse was almost empty when he first arrived in the U. S. But in the last year...
...million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory of history in suggesting that Sir Basil Zaharoff was once regarded as the power behind the Service, that it "was not altogether ignorant" of the true reasons for the mysterious deaths of Alfred Loewenstein and Prince Radziwill. Their attempt to form rayon companies and a European steel cartel menaced the industries of the clay-headed colossus...
...Anna at the railroad station in Moscow. Its major passages are the ball at which Vronsky falls in love with Anna; the spring afternoon in St. Petersburg when she realizes that she is in love with him; the horse race during which, when Vronsky's horse falls, Count Karenin (Basil Rathbone) learns from Anna's expression what she is feeling; the morning, long after she has left her husband, when Anna returns to see her son (Freddie Bartholomew); the day when Vronsky, sick of a relationship which has cut him off from his world, leaves Anna to join his regiment...
...American Tobacco Co. and various others by the Government, in the final analysis, showed substantial increases in the value of the securities composing those units." And there were others up & down the land who took an equally cheerful view of the future of utilities. Federal Power Commissioner Basil Manly predicted that, with the air cleared by the passage of the bill, utilities would spend no less than $2,000,000,000 for new equipment, replacement and expansion?a prediction which the utilities scornfully rejected...
...from Britain's Civil War to that of the U. S., and swung to theatrical fame on the clapper of a cardboard bell, Joseph Boggs Beale had produced a lively drawing of Bessie in the belfry, her wild hair and her reticule swinging free, silencing the signal for Basil Underwood's death...