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...Fokine create ballets that had true dramatic context. He used settings by Bakst, Derain, later Picasso. He commissioned composers like Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel to write him music. Expense was no item to Sergei Diaghilev. The Russian Ballet was the rage of Europe. Men like Baron Dmitri Gunsburg, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Aga Khan were proud to support it. Diaghilev is the villain of Romola Nijinsky's story, although she freely grants him his tremendous enterprise...
Having presumably escaped the pitfalls of bureaucracy, Pound proceeds to include selections from such poets as William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ernest Hemingway, e. e. cummings, Marianne Moore, Basil Bunting, T. S. Eliot and himself. These selections show the effect of a thoroughly deracinated culture upon some poets, for tradition must have stronger ties than recondite allusions to forgotten epics and obscure quotations from moth-eaten manuscripts in Continental archives. L. Z.'s notes provide some elucidation of the passages from the "XXX Cantos," but there is still not enough clarity for the plain reader. "The Red Front," by Louis...
...been held by such famed Peace Men as Sir Austen Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Lord Balfour and Dean Inge of St. Paul's. Its greatest salesman was a Greek by the name of Basileios Zacharias, who now, in his dotage, is known to the world as Sir Basil Zaharoff. Sir Basil is responsible for the ultimate technique of armament salesmanship: Sell one country an order and use it as a talking point to sell a larger order to a potential enemy. After Sir Basil had sold Greece its first submarine, he promptly induced Turkey...
RICHARDSON'S SECOND CASE-Sir Basil Thomson-Crime Club ($2). Murder of a servant and theft of coin bring to the Yard-novice Richardson a new chance. Much work, many physically gathered facts and good police integration bring co-relation of another case to bear and close the mystery. The case contains an extraneous parrot, a trustful solicitor and a suave arch-crook...
...active Y. M. C. A. man his influence has been felt from Finland to Jerusalem. Called "this Ulysses of modern missionaries" by the Bishop of Ely, Dr. Mott needs a good big book to move around in. Such a biography was published last month, a respectful "official" one by Basil Mathews, British religious journalist...