Word: basilic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heatter writes his newscasts himself, broadcasts them either from his penthouse in Manhattan or his home in Freeport, L. I. He used to practice broadcasting with his son Basil ten years ago. Using a frying pan as a mike, he put on mock shows that got Basil so worked up that the boy resolved to become a radio writer. Now 22, Basil has written for We, the People, Hobby Lobby, has done radio shows for Joe E. Brown and Diana Barrymore. This week CBS's Columbia Workshop will produce his Cassidy and the Devil...
Although Night Train, directed by Carol Reed, lacks the polish of its Hitchcock predecessors, its sustained excitement is agonizing. Those who saw The Lady Vanishes will be pleased to rediscover the two cricket-playing English gentlemen of that film (Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne), who interrupt the plot's progress at the tensest moments to discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with...
...Spanish Robin Hood of sixteenth century California. He rescues peasants, puts villains to the sword, and woos fair ladies with swashbuckling bravado. But porcine Engene Pallete steals acting honors as a he-man parish priest who crosses himself with one hand while wielding a wicked cudgel with a other. Basil Rathbone, who dictates to the local Franco, meets the just desserts of sneering down a long nose; and Linda Darnell drops in just long enough for two kisses. All of which goes to make "Mark of Zorro" a colorful, exciting mellerdrammer...
Ever since Poet Homer gave the lowdown on Ulysses, wily has been the word for Greeks. The Greek syndicates of gamblers; the late Sir Basil Zaharoff, merchant of death; tens of thousands of Greek traders in fruits, tobaccos, steamships have carried on the Ulysses tradition of wandering, guile and gain. Last week, with their mother country menaced, Greeks all over the world went in their own ways to her support. In the U. S., one of them was a millionaire oil operator of Louisiana and points west. Possessor of a 65-year exclusive franchise to find and exploit Greece...
Dancer Massine now confines himself to character dancing; like an actor, he knows how to give an effect of brilliance and vivacity by piecing out simple footwork with deft body movements, well-timed claps and stomps. But where the De Basil ballet is short on men-its best is David Lichine, choreographer as well as dancer-the massine troupe has four of the best: Roland Guerard of Flat Rock, N.C. one of the first U.S.-born Ballet Russers who was allowed to dance under his own name; Frederic Franklin, exuberant British onetime hoofer; and two genuine Russians, Igor Youskevitch...