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Ballet Theatre. Mr. Hurok's other troupe, replacing the ballet of Colonel Wassily de Basil is the Ballet Theatre. In its Chicago and Manhattan runs this outfit raised high hopes, but its policies did not suit its backer, Lucia Chase, herself a rich widow, an ambitious dancer. She turned the works over to Hurok, who put in two of his glamor girls (Irina Baronova, Alicia Markova), a new director, conductor and choreographers, all trained in the Russian tradition. When the Ballet Theatre opens in Manhattan next month, its fine U.S. ballet, Billy the Kid, will be missing. Eugene Loring...
Nobody paid much mind to A. B. ("Cyclone") Davis of Dallas, who runs for everything; to a politically unknown ex-West Pointer who buys radio time to demand an immediate declaration of war against Germany, Japan, Italy; to old Basil Muse Hatfield, "Commodore of Inland Rivers," who is campaigning for a five-ocean navy...
...Commodore" Basil Muse Hatfield, "Admiral of the Trinity River" and "King Castor."Somewhere in his mid-70'S, the Commodore has a rural folklore attached to him that is almost as long as his beloved Trinity valley. According to Gulf Coast legend, he was decorated by the British Government for services during the Boer War, has made and lost two oil fortunes, galloped through a handful of Mexican revolutions and was one of the dupes in the Dr. Cook oil scandal. For the past decade, he has ambled the 500 miles of the Trinity River valley in east Texas...
With shrewd, persuasive John Cowles to Minneapolis went the Register & Tribune's high-powered, Mencken-shaped Managing Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters, who got his start as editor of an A.E.F. newspaper in Italy with Adolphe Menjou and Robert Maynard Hutchins (now president of the University of Chicago). Third of the potent Cowles general staff on the Star-Journal was John Thompson, onetime editor of Pearson's Magazine...
Last August, before the Italians made their initial, short-lived drive into Egypt, Britain's defense-minded military expert, Captain Basil Henry Liddell Hart, wrote some extremely interesting words about defending the Western Desert of Egypt. The narrow coastal route, he said, was badly exposed to naval bombardment and concentrated air attack, and badly confined by its escarpment parallel to the shore. That later proved true...