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...students from Kiev, land-robbed landowners from the Volga Valley. They have turned sharply round the gate, up a stone staircase by the wall, into a low-vaulted room half-lost in the acres of masonry. There they have kissed the hands of a scarred and battered old priest, Basil Ivanovitch Baliavin, known to the world as the Most Reverend Dr. Tikhon, Metropolitan of Moscow, Patriarch of All Russia...
...Basil Ivanovitch came to the U. S. in 1898 as Bishop of the Aleutian Islands and Alaska. Actually, he was the head of the Russian Church throughout North America. In 1907, still only 42 years old, he went home, crowned with honor, was made Archbishop of Jaroslav and Vilna. Those were the days of Pobiedonostsev and Devialkovsky, two of the most tyrannical ecclesiastics in the history of a tyrannical church. Basil, now Archbishop Tikhon, was liberal in his views but discreet in utterance. He advanced. Finally, during the interregnum between Romanov and Lenin, Dr. Tikhon was enthroned as Patriarch...
...Little Minister. It was an unpleasant experience all around, this reopening of Barrie's 30-year-old candy box. It was sad for Barrie, because it showed that time has beaten those early imaginings of his. It was sad for Basil Dean, English director, because it showed (as in Hassan and Peter Pan) that he is second rate. It was chiefly sad for Ruth Chatterton, of whom Alexander Woollcott wrote: "Compared with this unhappy event [Miss Chatterton's playing], the selection of Marilyn Miller seemed nothing short of inspired." Maude Adams alone got praise...
...plan was to send Sir Gilbert out of the room and out of earshot, while a given person voiced a thought in the presence of a number of people. In one instance his son, Basil, said: "I'm thinking of the sinking of the Titanic and one of the bandsmen playing Nearer, My God, to Thee to nearly the end, and then he dived off and sat on his cello until he was picked up by a boat...
...fallen Labor Government authorized the tremendous expenditures involved, and it is more than certain that the Tories will carry on. The orders were placed, one with the English Government dirigible plant at Barrow, the other with the private but all powerful firm of Vickers, Ltd., which Sir Basil Zaharoff, Europe's mystery man, is said to control. The English call one the "Socialist" ship, the other the "Capitalist." But whether Labor or Tory is in power, the British always think of Empire, and the ships will connect England with India and Australia in four stages...