Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...premiere of Don Juan de Manara, a bloodthirsty opera differing widely from Mozart's Don Giovanni, which he had composed for the late Arnold Bennett's libretto. He had succeeded in combining with his own company the Paris Grand Opera and Opéra-Comique. Colonel de Basil's Ballet Russe had been billed to dance. Metropolitan Opera participants included Kirsten Flagstad, Gina Cigna, Kerstin Thorborg, Lauritz Melchior, Lawrence Tibbett, Giovanni Martinelli, John Brownlee. The Coronation season was to last eleven weeks instead of the usual six. Yet in London last week curtains dropped on an opera...
...bishop responsible for the actions of Anglican clergymen in France is Right Rev. Basil Staunton Batty, Bishop of Fulham. He was summoned to a hasty and secret conference with the Archbishop of Canterbury at Lambeth Palace. Few hours later Bishop Batty made a statement...
...moldering body of Jacob Zwanger, onetime Soviet Vice-Commissar of Harbors for the Black Sea region. The police discovered that he had been stabbed 17 times and strangled in the basement of a nearby house owned by Reuben Schenzvit, gunrunner and onetime salesman for the late munitions tycoon, Sir Basil Zaharoff. In the house was a radio transmitting set powerful enough to reach Europe, a dozen microphones and dictographs. Leading from the basement to the orange grove was a 400-yd. tunnel...
...ocean), this film investigates the prelude to a quiet murder in a British country house. The afternoon she advertises her flat for rent because she has just won first prize in a Paris lottery, Carol Howard (Ann Harding) receives a prospective tenant in the person of Gerald Lovell (Basil Rathbone), whose worldly manners soon so charm her that she marries him. After a gay honeymoon in Paris, they settle down together in a Kentish cottage, paid for with funds which Gerald has borrowed from his wife. Life in the cottage is idyllic until one day Carol chances to open...
...students arranged before Judge P. Sarsfield Cunniff were Israel H. Scheinberg '40, Paul P. Lurie '38, Joseph Ransohoff '38, Arthur K. Davis '37, Martin J. Pollak '38, Basil R. Pollitt '40 and Arthur Lane...