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Loyalties (Associated Talking Pictures). That the defects in this serious, painstaking adaptation of John Galsworthy's play are so obvious is partly because they are on the surface. Directed by Basil Dean, one of the backers of this British company which is planning wide-scale distribution in the U. S., the story moves slowly. Its static quality is increased by the fact that it is chopped into four major scenes in which the principal characters stand still and talk. Their talk is enough to make Loyalties an interesting picture which, because of its theme, may attain as much notice...
...Hungarian wife Romola, who blames her husband's insanity on the late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold L. Haskell, Britain's ablest dance critic, who knew both Diaghilev and Madame Nijinsky, recorded his own ballet enthusiasms.* Dancers in Colonel Vassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe know Author Haskell as a bubbling, bald little man who trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several...
Married. Mrs. Lelia Gordon Dickey, 30, great-granddaughter of Tobacco Merchant Basil Gordon (1768-1847), "Virginia's first millionaire," stepdaughter of the late Major-General George Barnett, Wartime Commandant of the U.S. Marine corps; and Newbold Noyes, 42, son of Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star and president of the Associated Press. Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children. Mr. Noyes' first wife has custody of their three sons...
...mile longer than the Holland Tunnel between New York and New Jersey under the Hudson River. The latter consists of two tubes, with two lanes of one-way traffic in each. Queensway, being a single tube, has four lanes of traffic. Said Queensway's Chief Engineer Sir Basil Mott: "We owe much to experience gained by the Americans in building the Holland Tunnels...
...spectacles. To him the trouble with the U.S. economic system was that profits were not spread widely enough. He said so in books and speeches. The public paid no more attention to him than to any other professor. In 1932 Governor Roosevelt told his lawyer friends Samuel Rosenman and Basil O'Connor to go out and bring him specialists to help formulate some good answers to national questions. They selected Raymond Moley to corral the specialists. On his second visit, Dr. Moley brought his next door neighbor, Dr. Tugwell. To Governor Roosevelt, Dr. Tugwell stated his prime belief that...