Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish opera diva, Vera (Kay Francis) is so bereft when her husband Leonide. a nice fattish army officer (Ian Hunter), goes away to the War that she drinks too much at a wild Warsaw party given by her old trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera is her mother, is escorted into...
...troupe did not appear to have his mind entirely on his work. He kept glancing toward the wings, grimacing and nodding at someone offstage. When the curtain fell, Massine hastened backstage. There, summoned by urgent telegrams both from Massine and from the impresario of the troupe, Colonel Wassily de Basil, stood the beauteous prima ballerina assoluta of the Rome and Milan operas, Attilia Radice, and her journalist and balletomane husband, Paolo Fabbri...
...Massine had seen while taking part in the ballet, the Italians had conversed earnestly with Colonel de Basil, and as the dancer well knew, the tall impresario had been dickering to sign them up for his troupe before Massine could get off the stage. Massine, too, wanted the No. 1 de Basil to take charge of another ballet group. But Massine's onstage frenzies and his backstage pleadings were no use: Colonel de Basil won Radice (and Fabbri) with offers of $700 apiece per month on any U. S. tour he might take them on, $450 in England...
Last week U. S. balletomanes learned more of the split between Massine and de Basil-a split which forecast an international ballet war-when word came from England that the two had taken certain differences into court. Dancer Massine, whose current contract with Colonel de Basil expires Sept. 15, had joined another company, notified Colonel de Basil that he claimed exclusive right to all the ballets, many of them drawing cards, for which Massine had devised the choreography. Before the Hon. Mr. Justice Luxmoore of Chancery Court the two parties brought this question: can property right be claimed...
...Scarlet Empress in a neck-length wig, vigorous, clean-cut Cinemactor Lodge seems to have found a niche in British cinema. So pleased were his producers by his work in Ourselves Alone that he is now under a long-term starring contract. Already announced is Sensation, from Basil Dean's play Murder Gang, in which he will appear as a tough reporter...