Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...redeeming feature of the early part of the movie is the performance of Basil Rathbone, who makes the part of Pontius Pilate something worth seeing. He not only gives his lines but also does not act as though a toga were a very great novelty and on the whole quite unpredictable. Preston Foster in the lead role is unbelievable...
...Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith Evans...
...repertoire this season there are 25 ballets. 13 more than in the first winter. In the company there are 65 dancers, several of whom still travel with their fathers or mothers. In charge of them all is Colonel Vassily de Basil, a onetime Cossack officer who was so determined not to see Russian ballet die out that he organized the troupe, named it "Monte Carlo" for Princess Charlotte of Monaco who gave him his first backing. Colonel de Basil's purse was almost empty when he first arrived in the U. S. But in the last year...
...million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory of history in suggesting that Sir Basil Zaharoff was once regarded as the power behind the Service, that it "was not altogether ignorant" of the true reasons for the mysterious deaths of Alfred Loewenstein and Prince Radziwill. Their attempt to form rayon companies and a European steel cartel menaced the industries of the clay-headed colossus...
...American Tobacco Co. and various others by the Government, in the final analysis, showed substantial increases in the value of the securities composing those units." And there were others up & down the land who took an equally cheerful view of the future of utilities. Federal Power Commissioner Basil Manly predicted that, with the air cleared by the passage of the bill, utilities would spend no less than $2,000,000,000 for new equipment, replacement and expansion?a prediction which the utilities scornfully rejected...