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...begin work [in his father's office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate it to show how public houses can and should be run. I think we should...
...Church of Phanar on the Golden Horn of Constantinople, ranking patriarchate of the Greek Orthodox Church, witnessed a solemn rite. Last month Basil III, ecumenical patriarch of the church, died full of years (87). The Holy Synod of Stamboul last week chose his successor from three grave, bearded Metropolitans. Broussa's Nicodemus, Nicaea's Benjamin they passed over. For Photius, Metropolitan of Dercos, 17 out of 18 of the Holy Synod voted...
...replaced by cinematic values and which is skillfully acted by film players trained to understand the camera. The voices come out clearly and naturally, not yet as clearly as real people talking, but modulated so that you forget the sound device. Best shots: Norma Shearer wringing a proposal from Basil Rathbone; Norma Shearer stealing back into her room with her hostess' pearls...
Married. Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers, Manhattan oilman lately divorced (TIME, July 22); to Mrs. Basil Miles, Budapest-born widow of the late U. S. Commissioner to the International Chamber of Commerce and onetime wife of Peabody Savell, U. S. engineer; in Paris...
Born in the U. S., educated in France, living in England, Author Sedgwick has a fine sense of the best elements in all three countries. In private life she is Mme. Basil de Selincourt, lives in England, tends her roses, sings Brahms and Haydn oratorios in the village choral society which her husband conducts...