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...form for which they were not intended. This comedy of Lonsdale's, The High Road, is not really oldfashioned. Its situation-the consternation of an English family when faced with the possible marriage of one of its scions with a Gaiety-girl-is ingeniously handled. Ruth Chatterton and Basil Rathbone act it as well as you can conceive of its being acted. But somehow its balance and unity have been altered. Faithful to its original, The Lady of Scandal is fair entertainment, but it never becomes a moving picture. Dénouement-Miss Chatterton, forced to live on trial...
...return to the S. S. Van Dine ghoulish extravaganzas William Powell, while easily surpassing his understudy, Basil Rathbone, who appeared as Philo Vance in the "Bishop Murder Case", gives a distinctly inferior performance to his first appearance as the modernist detective. His suavity is the direct cause of objection: ennui sits so heavily upon him that it finally spreads to the spectator and the latter at last doesn't give a--(censored on Sundays) just who did make off with the entirely nasty stockbroker: he's done away with and that's the important point. Mr. Powell sits and sits...
...Notorious Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall...
...BASIL DICKEY...
Queen Mary Of England visited "The Anchor," London model saloon operated by Rev. Basil Jellicoe (TIME, Oct. 28), cousin of Admiral Sir John Rushworth Jellicoe (Battle of Jutland hero). The barman showed her how to draw a clear brew, demonstrated the beer pump. Emerging, said she: "I think it is a splendid place. It is so cozy and homely. I enjoyed myself tremendously...