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...wealth in gold bricks and coins is estimated at $1,000,000,000. His wealth in jewels is uncounted. Second on the list comes John Davison Rockefeller Jr. He is followed by Henry and Edsel Bryant Ford; next is John Pierpont Morgan. Below this quintet come Sir Basil Zaharoff and His Highness Sir Sayaji Rao III, the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda...
...father of Geoffrey Kerr (London Calling, This is New York) gives the production a certain air of dignity. Admirers of the charming elder Kerr believe that if everybody grew up to be a septuagenarian like him, the world would be a better place. Included in the cast is Basil Rathbone (The Captive, The Command to Love), a handsome ascetic mummer. Along with Mr. Kerr, Actor Rathbone appeared in The Czarina and in the cinema Lady of Scandal. Also in the play, also fresh from Hollywood, is Montagu Love...
Chapin took no interest in his trial or in the formidable defense counsel, headed by George Woodward Wickersham, whom the court appointed. He pleaded guilty, took a sentence of 20-years-to-life. Immediately Prisoner Chapin was made editor of the Sing Sing Bulletin. At the instance of Author Basil King he wrote his book, Charles Chapin's Story. But the real substance of his prison life has been his gardening. First with his tobacco money, later with outside help (including a check every month from onetime Reporter Cobb), he set out his beautifully landscaped plots...
...also scheduled to begin in October. Los Angeles will have its second season under Conductor Artur Rodzinski (formerly Philadelphia Orchestra assistant), its eleventh with William Andrews Clark Jr. as sole supporter. San Francisco will have two new conductors to succeed Alfred Hertz: for the first three months, British Basil Cameron; then Russian Issai Dobrowen (recent conductor in Norway...
...fool like an old fool, this shows how a clever wife handles an aging husband's infatuation with a younger woman. No new twist is given the theatrical stencil except the inept title which, proclaiming the denouement, effectively checkmates suspense. On the stage it was Misdeal, a play by Basil Woon. Belle Bennett and John Halliday are in it. Best sequence: Miss Bennett teasing the husband who wants to come home...