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MARRIAGE
BROUGHT HIM EVERYTHING
By KIRTLEY BASKETTE
■ Poise, fame, happiness — all these came to Basil Rathbone because, though he was afraid of life, he met and married a very wise woman
THE highest adventure in Basil Rathbone's life— and he'll tell you this himself — befell him one afternoon back in 1921. He never knew anything about it until two years later. But he's still living it today.
That was the afternoon he walked out on the stage of a Broadway theater and in the audience a woman saw him for the first time. She turned to her companion at
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once and said, "There is the man I would like to marry." Two years later, at a Manhattan party, Basil and that woman met. Before the party was over they were in love. A few weeks later they were married. Thus began the most romantic adventure of the man who plays Sherlock Holmes every Monday night on NBC — the adventure he still shares with the lady of his heart, Mrs. Basil Rathbone.
High in the wooded hills of BelAir, Hollywood's exclusive residential park, stands today a monument to that romantic adventure — the perfect marriage of Basil Rathbone and Ouida Bergere. It is a massive French chateau type house with big rooms, full of comfortable chairs, books, old prints, volumes of symphony recordings and comfortable things.
Outdoors in the big yard, five dogs bark, two cats purr, canaries sing and one tortoise does whatever a tortoise does in the way
of saying all's right with the world Inside and upstairs a rosycheeked baby girl occasionally protests the limitations of infant life with a ladylike gurgle. She is their newly adopted daughter, Barbara Cynthia, six months old, the current apple of both Ouida and Basil Rathbone's eyes. Until war called a few months ago, the laughter of a blissful young married couple, Basil's son, Rodion, and his wife, rang through the house.
This is home to Sherlock Holmes, a home boy, if there ever was one. It is a home that clearly announces the happy fullfilment of an unusual and perfect love story — with success, health, wealth and lasting happiness.
That the Rathbones have all of these things is beyond dispute. No actor on the screen matches Basil's record of flawless performances. None in Hollywood is busier, more sought after, more respected. No freelance (Continued on page 89)
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