Since I did the post on The Captive a few days ago, references to the play seem to keep popping up on Tumblr. So I thought I’d revisit to link to this site:Out History which includes the Brooks Atkinson review quoted on this blog and goes into quite a bit of depth about the incident. Anyone interested should definitely go there.
There have also been more photographs from the production surfacing, and here are a couple of them:
Poor Basil discovering he is wed to a lesbian. I would just run to comfort him any way he wanted.
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I love his clothes in these early photos. Was he a bit of a dandy in real life?
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How amazingly tall he seems! A true protector of the innocent 😀
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He was 6 foot one and 3/4 according to his army papers.
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Where did you read that?
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It’s quite right, you can see it in Rathbone’s army records which are available through Ancesstry.co.uk.
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Oh Basil, how delectable you were
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Thanks for this link, fascinating!
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Yes,thanks for this link.
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Lovely Basil, playing tug of war with a lady 🙂
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I want to see the next shot, where he’s just got her arms and Helen Menken is clutching the rest of her. Blood everywhere 😀
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