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Zaharoff. One member of the Royal Commission is a practicing journalist-novelist, Sir Philip Gibbs. He itched to ask questions about Journalism's famed "Mystery Man of Europe," Sir Basil Zaharoff...
...impatient to become a Daughter of Charity. At 14 she vowed herself to chastity. Her lingering death from tuberculosis was a summing up of all she knew and much that she felt only intuitively of Catholic belief. Marie Thèrèse Wang's biographer, Rev. Basil Stegmann of the Benedictine Order, lists eight cases which the Roman Catholic Church may or may not judge to be miracles supporting the Rose of China's candidacy for beatification. Among them: two cures (tuberculosis, cholera) ; one happy death; one escape from brigands; an instance in which someone received payment...
Known variously and vaguely as "The Richest Man in the World," "The Armaments King," "The Mystery Man of Europe," Sir Basil Zaharoff, Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire and of the Order of the Bath, Doctor of Laws, Oxford, Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor, etc., is one of the most prominent members of the world's unburied dead. Still alive at 86, he retired eight years ago, now lives in senile seclusion on his French estate at Balincourt. To pacifists the single-handed murderer of millions, to Reds a mummified museum-piece of capitalism...
...redeeming feature of the early part of the movie is the performance of Basil Rathbone, who makes the part of Pontius Pilate something worth seeing. He not only gives his lines but also does not act as though a toga were a very great novelty and on the whole quite unpredictable. Preston Foster in the lead role is unbelievable...
...Brian Aherne's Mercutio and thus finds Ralph Richardson not quite up to former's perfection. He is very appealing and reads his lines with verve which charms but he is not quite Mr. Aherne. Thus also with Maurice Evans in the difficult role of Romeo. He hasn't Basil Rathbone's experienced skill but he does give the part a youthfully romantic vigor which his predecessor failed to achieve. Charles Waldron is still fine as Friar Lawrence, and Florence Roed is excellent as the nurse, though perhaps not quite up to the standard which Edith Evans...