Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other guests who partook of the hospitality of the white cottage among the murmuring pines: Nelson Cheney, New York State Senator, a Republican but an old friend; Eugene R. Black, onetime Governor of the Federal Reserve (see p. 53); Chairman Frank McNinch and Vice Chairman Basil Manly of the Federal Power Commission; David Lilienthal of TVA; Morris L. Cooke of the National Resources Board; Governors-elect Bibb Graves of Alabama and Olin D. Johnston of South Carolina; Governors Talmadge of Georgia and Sholtz of Florida; Senators Robinson of Arkansas and Harrison of Mississippi, who after a four-hour conference jointly...
Loyalties (Associated Talking Pictures). That the defects in this serious, painstaking adaptation of John Galsworthy's play are so obvious is partly because they are on the surface. Directed by Basil Dean, one of the backers of this British company which is planning wide-scale distribution in the U. S., the story moves slowly. Its static quality is increased by the fact that it is chopped into four major scenes in which the principal characters stand still and talk. Their talk is enough to make Loyalties an interesting picture which, because of its theme, may attain as much notice...
Ferdinand de Levis (Basil Rathbone) is a hypersensitive Jew who feels the veiled disdain of London socialites who pretend to accept him. He accuses a fellow member of a house party of robbing him. As the evidence gathers against Captain Dancy (Miles Mander), his friends assemble to defend him. The conflicting ties of race and honor that force de Levis to maintain his accusation compel Dancy to take his denial into court. There the racial solidarity that has formed to protect him ends by destroying Dancy, in a scene whose theatrical effectiveness does not mar its honesty...
...Hungarian wife Romola, who blames her husband's insanity on the late great Serge Diaghilev (TIME, March 19). Last week Arnold L. Haskell, Britain's ablest dance critic, who knew both Diaghilev and Madame Nijinsky, recorded his own ballet enthusiasms.* Dancers in Colonel Vassily de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet Russe know Author Haskell as a bubbling, bald little man who trails them from town to town, settles many a backstage dispute, writes occasional reviews for British papers (New Statesman, New English Weekly, Manchester Guardian) and turns up persistently at rehearsals and performances in an overcoat several...
Married. Mrs. Lelia Gordon Dickey, 30, great-granddaughter of Tobacco Merchant Basil Gordon (1768-1847), "Virginia's first millionaire," stepdaughter of the late Major-General George Barnett, Wartime Commandant of the U.S. Marine corps; and Newbold Noyes, 42, son of Frank Brett Noyes, publisher of the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star and president of the Associated Press. Mrs. Noyes was divorced two months ago from Robert Russell Dickey Jr., onetime U.S. consular agent in Pau, France, has four children. Mr. Noyes' first wife has custody of their three sons...