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...banker's daughter during the Tsarist regime, studied with Kshesinskaya, the ballerina who was Nicholas II's mistress up to the time of his marriage. In London the fair-haired Riabouchinska had so many stage-door admirers that the Ballet's director, Colonel Vassily de Basil, rushed her to Lloyd's, insured her against marriage for several years to come...
Baronova, whose dancing has a pure emotional quality, seemed well watched by her zealous parents who have accompanied their pretty daughter on the three U. S. tours. In Columbus, Ohio two months ago the wide-eyed Baronova suddenly disappeared. She had eloped with Gerald Sevastianov, Colonel de Basil's handsome young secretary...
...serious, his son Barnabas (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) equips himself as a gentleman of quality, goes to look for the real culprit among the company that stayed at his father's inn on the night of the trouble: Lady Cleone Meredith (Elissa Landi) ; her fortune-hunting fiance, Louis Chichester (Basil Sydney); her fop of a brother (Hugh Williams) and a lady who had been her fiancé's mistress. The freeing of Barty Sr., the winning of Cleone and the expo sure of the thief who stole a fortune in pearls and banknotes from Lady Cleone's grandfather...
...which is seething with ambitions for a coup d'état. As always since the War the stabilizing influence in Greece remained British influence. The millionaire widow of M. Venizelos is the daughter of a British-nationalized Greek. Another British-moneyed fingerer in Greek pies is Munitioneer Sir Basil Zaharoff. King George II himself went direct from London to resume the Greek Throne as the protégé of King George V and London bankers (TIME, Dec. 2). As Greek church bells tolled for Venizelos and Greek flags flew at half mast, Greek censors passed Athens dispatches...
Already a diamond tycoon at 20, Cecil Rhodes is given "six months to live" by a Dr. Jameson (Basil Sydney), who examines him in South Africa in 1873. Ten years later he is not only still alive but master of South African diamond mines. With the help of Dr. Jameson, now his best friend, he pushes on to fulfill his lifelong ideal-to unite South Africa, then the whole world, under the British Empire. His first step is to absorb Matabeleland, lush jungle nation ruled by King Lobengula. As Premier, he next tries to get Transvaal, ruled by the Boers...