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...this season, and having chosen to neglect Him after a brief run, Manhattan theatregoers may now witness the Devil walking the earth like a natural man. The Old Harry in the latest offering of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Springtime for Henry, Mrs. Moonlight} is none other than matinee idolized Basil Rathbone. Christened facetiously Rev. Nicholas Lucy, Mr. Rathbone has been sent among mortals by Playwright Levy to tempt them, and in so tempting to demonstrate that the practice of virtue is inescapable. "The Devil," observes Mr. Lucy, "is God's advertising agent...
After an intermission the Harvard club will sing "O Isis and Osiris" by Mozart, three English folk songs, and a group of football songs. The Yale singers will follow with four Yale songs: "Mother of Mon" by Soth Bingham; a tenor solo, "Antoinette Berby" by Cole Porter, sung by Basil D. Henning; "Carolina" from the Yale Song Book, sung by the "Eight Sons of Eli," H. F. Brunner, C. P. Chapman, H. H. Clifford, M. W. A. Hunt, D. C. Jillson, E. P. Small, D. F. Smith, and A. T. Sutherland; "All at Once" from the Yale Song Book...
...below the standard which Warner Bros, have announced their intention to maintain by adopting a smaller and more select production schedule (TIME, Sept. 20). Powell, identified with less lush impersonations at Paramount, seems vapid by contrast in this picture although his mannerisms are less noxious than those of Basil Rathbone, who played the role on the stage. Doris Kenyon, who is now no older in appearance than when she was an actress in silent cinemas years ago, helps out. But the real trouble lies in a story untrue to everything except a pattern which went out when third-rate writers...
...summer plump, round-faced Basil Maxwell Manly has been quietly investigating the political and personal bank accounts of Bishop James Cannon...
...laid to its cast. Miss Best's interpretation is cool, crisp, sensible. She redeems a part which might very well become wretchedly maudlin. A sort of British Hope Williams, her outstanding U. S. successes have been in The High Road and These Charming People. Basil Rathbone, smooth, slick, debonair, slides through his role with his customary facility...