Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer plump, round-faced Basil Maxwell Manly has been quietly investigating the political and personal bank accounts of Bishop James Cannon...
Melo. As confessed by its title, this play is a melodrama. It is also the first Manhattan presentation of a play by French Author Henry Bernstein (The Thief) and the third appearance of the season for English Actor Basil Rathbone. With two strikes against him for a pair of wild, unsuccessful swings he took in Heat Wave and A Kiss of Importance, Mr. Rathbone seems pretty sure of a base hit with Melo...
...laid to its cast. Miss Best's interpretation is cool, crisp, sensible. She redeems a part which might very well become wretchedly maudlin. A sort of British Hope Williams, her outstanding U. S. successes have been in The High Road and These Charming People. Basil Rathbone, smooth, slick, debonair, slides through his role with his customary facility...
...failure of Caldwell & Co. What the jury found was not pleasing. Contemplation of it lead to what many southerners had long expected, had begun to think might never come-orders for the arrest of Rogers Caldwell and Col. Luke Lea. And included in the warrants was J. Basil Ramsey, president of Holston-Union National Bank, who last week was sunning himself in Florida...
Heat Wave is another play about the tropics where white women are careless of their virtue, white men foolish with their drink and only the natives retain a stealthy dignity. Handsome Basil Rathbone (The Command to Love) is the dissolute Nordic who is pursued by Irene March (Betty Lawford) but who really loves Irene's married sister-in-law Philippa (Selena Royle). For all his tippling and reputed wenching the Nordic is a brave lonely man, fighting fever and the opposition of public opinion in the district. This general resentment culminates in Philippa's husband taking a shot...