Word: basile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minister to Denmark Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde's first husband, turned up in Manhattan, gaily prattled to newshawks about her madcap life. Highlights: 1) a prison term for the shooting of a French doctor's wife; 2) a romance with the late mysterious octogenarian Munitions Maker Sir Basil ("Arms and the Men") Zaharoff; 3) a trip to British Honduras to call on an unknown man who had written her a letter. Explained Lady Owen: "I was very eccentric...
Then James Prince and his followers arrived. Prince was the Basil Rathbone type-tall, hypnotic, a devil with women. "His power,'' said his wife, "is more than half in the way he affects women. . . . He's handsome and he's got magnetism and a gift of words. And he's had lots of practice." He had started a commune on a parcel of land in Virginia which the Apostle Paul assured him was the site of the Garden of Eden. That broke up because of his predilection for young girls. During the diphtheria epidemic...
...Julius Fleischmann under the name World-Art, Inc., went famed Choreographer Leonide Massine. Also to be drawn under the World-Art aegis was the Monte Carlo Ballet of Monte Carlo. To the opposite camp, sup ported by Prince Serge Obolensky and cohorts of Manhattan socialites, went rangy Colonel de Basil, a great deal of scenery and the right to produce most of the important ballets in the repertory (TIME, Feb. 14). For a time the rival organizations glowered and girded them selves for rival U. S. tours next season. But four months ago, it was announced that the battle...
...last month, as the new super-ballet was preparing for a somewhat delayed London opening, it leaked out that the constellations of Universal's new universe had collided. De Basil, who had not personally signed any agreement with Universal, denied flatly that any merger had taken place, claimed that he could not speak English and had not understood the terms of Universal's proposal. Universal Art promptly sued de Basil, only to find, in court, that de Basil no longer owned the scenery and production rights of the de Basil Ballet, but had sold them...
Three weeks ago, Universal, reduced again to World-Art, Inc., was starting on a new scent, and was preparing to sue Educational Ballets. But Educational Ballets, backed by Baron Frederic D'Erlanger, jumped the gun and opened a season of ballet at Covent Garden with the original de Basil ballet's No. 2 choreographer, David Lichine, as director. The flittery world of the ballet having sprawled into another grand écart, World-Art announced that it would open this week across the street at Drury Lane with Massine in charge. Meantime Ballet's forgetful and forgotten...