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...business is slack, the two wheel off in the hearse to raise the death toll, chew the scenery, and feed each other jokes. But the jokes lack nourishment. Foppishly appraising a coffin, Price sneers: "Nobody in their right mind would be caught dead in that thing." True enough. So Basil Rathbone gets buried alive, while Boris Karloff, in a minor role, eyes his former gloom-mates and a dose of poison with equal distaste. "When I was young," Karloff grumbles, "we knew how to live." They also knew how to die - back in the days when a tongue...
...Alar Aalto of Helsinki, who designed Baker House, a dorm at M.I.T.; Mies van der Rohe of Chicago, who designed the Seagrams Building in New York; Louis Kahn of the University of Pennsylvania; I. M. Pei, who draw up the general plan for the Boston Government Center; and Sir Basil Spence of London
...clothing manufacturer placed an order for $140,000 worth of kangaroo skins to make ski clothes; the animal's meat is sold as a delicacy in Japan, can be found as pet food in Sydney shops at 23? a can. Some consider this a waste. "In kangaroos," says Basil J. Marlow, curator of mammals at the Australian museum in Sydney, "you have a valuable source of protein. Instead of being shoved into bloody dogs and cats, it could be more profitably shoved into humans. Kangaroo meat is quite tasty when properly butchered...
...death scene, like several other emotion-ridden moments, is set up by a quiet conversation that precedes it. In fact Basil Ashmore, who cut the two full-length parts of Tamburlaine into a two-and-a-half-hour show, retained most of the play's quieter moments while cutting back on the noise. The changes he has worked are radical; Bajazeth and Zabina disappear from part one, the Christian kings and their Muslim allies form part two. Almost all the battle scenes are excised, and so, unfortunately, are some important parts of Zenocrate's role. It is inevitable that much...
Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford built their fabled 14-acre "Pickfair" and proposed that the community be walled off from the outside world, when the Basil Rathbones ordered snow one slow summer day, provided sleds and skis for a couple of hundred friends. Beverly Hills was then, and is now, the most glamorous suburb...