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...Basil L. ("Stuffy") Walters, 39, short, barrel-shaped (100-lb.) and genial, is managing editor of both the Register (morning) and Tribune (evening). Between his two staffs, entirely separate for each paper, has grown a genuine news rivalry, essential in a city where there is no other local competition...
...world's most famed arms tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff, whom he had encountered in Nice: "He is what I would term an international merchant. There is no mistaking that he is a great figure in world business. I knew him first when he headed Vickers in England and have frequently met him abroad since then. He is getting along in years, as I am myself. I told him recently that he made one mistake and that was not taking the Press into his confidence. Because he did not do so, many mysterious stories arose behind...
...years ago Bishop Basil Vladimir Ladyka, resident in Winnipeg, commanded the errant fathers to petition the Vatican for a ruling on their cases. To the two small Ontario parishes where the two were settled-Oshawa (200 Ukrainian Catholics) and Brantford (400)- last week went reply. The fathers could remain in the priesthood by separating from their families, continuing, however, to support them. Otherwise the two would be unfrocked...
Nowhere Bound (by Leo Birinski; Birinski, Inc., producer) includes in its overstuffed cast characters named Tomski, McTavish, Schwartz, Grasso, Maureen, Basil Oxley, Ipolita Romanescu and A Young Turk. This polyglot crew is traveling involuntarily across the continent in a sleeping car on a special Government train. When they reach Ellis Island they are all to be deported as undesirable aliens. With this novel background, Playwright Birinski manages with considerable grace to produce a number of situations no less novel...
...dies and cares for his household when he marries. As Peggotty's brother Dan, who sets out to avenge Little Emily when David's friend Steerforth betrays her, Lionel Barrymore wears the chin whiskers of a Yarmouth fisherman. David's widowed mother (Elizabeth Allen); Mr. Murdstone (Basil Rathbone) who marries her, frightens her to death and packs David off to earn his living; violent Aunt Betsey (Edna May Oliver), who befriends David and beats such visitors as ride donkeys to her Dover cottage; Mr. Dick (Lennox Pawle), her shrewd, erratic house guest who was always getting...