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Divorced. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, 53, Manhattan oil tycoon; by Marguerite Basil Miles Rogers; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...Philadelphia, 1,500 Roman Catholic parishioners in the Italian district, resentful over transfer orders for their three popular priests, Revs. Simpliciano Gatt, Aurelio Marini and Basil Fresno, held the fathers captive in the Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel until police forced an entrance, surrounded the priests, got them out. When Father Gatt, assistant pastor, returned to get his clothes, parishioners recaptured him in the rectory. "We love him; we will not let him go!" they shouted. They fought the police, threw them out, locked the doors, refused admittance to a funeral party, cheered when the cort...
...support an orchestra and he would prefer playing his flute at home to wrestling any longer with deficits. In Portland this autumn players in the symphony are donating 10% of their salaries to help make the season possible. The Seattle Symphony will give only five concerts under dreamy British Basil Cameron whose contract was not renewed at the end of last season in San Francisco...
Conductor Hertz was ousted two years ago. Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron imported. But the orchestra has continued to drift nearer & nearer the rocks through lack of general support...
...size of Madagascar but much farther north. Emperor of Azania is Seth, black as shiny coal but bursting with progressive ideas he has swallowed. As soon as he is firmly settled on his rickety throne he proceeds to regurgitate them in rapid succession. Pat to his purpose comes Basil Seal, outrageous example of London's outrageous young wastrels. Seth makes Basil head of the Bureau of Modernization, which before long practically takes over the government of the country. In off hours Basil has fun with Prudence, enthusiastic daughter of the vague British Minister, but as Seth really hits...