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Melo. As confessed by its title, this play is a melodrama. It is also the first Manhattan presentation of a play by French Author Henry Bernstein (The Thief) and the third appearance of the season for English Actor Basil Rathbone. With two strikes against him for a pair of wild, unsuccessful swings he took in Heat Wave and A Kiss of Importance, Mr. Rathbone seems pretty sure of a base hit with Melo...
...failure of Caldwell & Co. What the jury found was not pleasing. Contemplation of it lead to what many southerners had long expected, had begun to think might never come-orders for the arrest of Rogers Caldwell and Col. Luke Lea. And included in the warrants was J. Basil Ramsey, president of Holston-Union National Bank, who last week was sunning himself in Florida...
Heat Wave is another play about the tropics where white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot...
...Roosevelt had formed the Roosevelt Lines to operate a service to India for the U. S. Shipping Board. Jute was its principal baggage. In 1926 he took into the company two widely-known young shippingmen: John M. Franklin whose father, Philip Albright Small Franklin, heads I. M. M., and Basil Harris. He promised vigorous expansion of the U. S.-owned Roosevelt Lines. Last year this expansion became marked. Shippingman Roosevelt was able to announce that William Vincent Astor had acquired a substantial interest in the company, that an affiliate, Baltimore Mail Steamship Co.. was being formed to operate...
Only last week did this deal receive its official confirmation. Kermit Roosevelt, John M. Franklin and Basil Harris became vice presidents of I. M. M., while all three and lanky, yacht-fond Vincent Astor were made directors, marking the passing of control to the Roosevelt interests. Still president of I. M. M. is Philip Albright Small Franklin, probably pleased to have his company controlled by his son and friends...