Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There are two able young routine conductors in San Francisco now: Russian Issai Dobrowen and British Basil Cameron. Jacob Levison, 69-year-old insurance man, as head of the Musical Association, probably gives more than anyone else towards the orchestra's support. President Levison played the flute himself once in an amateur symphonic band. He staunchly advocates music as a hobby for businessmen. Prominent businessmen who were drafted to boost the $175,000 campaign starting this week included Bankers Mortimer Fleishhacker and William Henry Crocker, Sugar-broker Wallace McKinney Alexander, Chamber of Commerceman Leland Cutter. Robert Watt Miller, able...
...European melodramatics, court intrigue and fictionized history?does not suit her so well as the vampire parts she used to play in silent films but it has a few amusing sequences. Pola Negri, as a celebrated lady of the stage, is enamored of a captain in the Royal Guards (Basil Rathbone). She finds herself closeted with the King who, as played by Roland Young, is an elegantly frowzy little monarch with no regal pretensions beyond that of giggling quietly at his own wisecracks. Presently, by royal command. Miss Negri is married to the King while her guardsman is jailed...
...this season, and having chosen to neglect Him after a brief run, Manhattan theatregoers may now witness the Devil walking the earth like a natural man. The Old Harry in the latest offering of Playwright Benn W. Levy (Springtime for Henry, Mrs. Moonlight} is none other than matinee idolized Basil Rathbone. Christened facetiously Rev. Nicholas Lucy, Mr. Rathbone has been sent among mortals by Playwright Levy to tempt them, and in so tempting to demonstrate that the practice of virtue is inescapable. "The Devil," observes Mr. Lucy, "is God's advertising agent...
After an intermission the Harvard club will sing "O Isis and Osiris" by Mozart, three English folk songs, and a group of football songs. The Yale singers will follow with four Yale songs: "Mother of Mon" by Soth Bingham; a tenor solo, "Antoinette Berby" by Cole Porter, sung by Basil D. Henning; "Carolina" from the Yale Song Book, sung by the "Eight Sons of Eli," H. F. Brunner, C. P. Chapman, H. H. Clifford, M. W. A. Hunt, D. C. Jillson, E. P. Small, D. F. Smith, and A. T. Sutherland; "All at Once" from the Yale Song Book...
...below the standard which Warner Bros, have announced their intention to maintain by adopting a smaller and more select production schedule (TIME, Sept. 20). Powell, identified with less lush impersonations at Paramount, seems vapid by contrast in this picture although his mannerisms are less noxious than those of Basil Rathbone, who played the role on the stage. Doris Kenyon, who is now no older in appearance than when she was an actress in silent cinemas years ago, helps out. But the real trouble lies in a story untrue to everything except a pattern which went out when third-rate writers...