Basil Rathbone Brilliant In Heroic Story of Today

Northern Advocate, 16 December 1939, Page 14

Basil Rathbone Brilliant In Heroic Story of Today

'.They’ve taken the wrath out of Hathbpne! “The man who put the sneer on a paying basis,” Basil Rathbone plays a sympathetic role in UniversaPs romantic drama, “The Sun Never Sets,” •with Douglas Fairbanks, Junr. costarred.

streamlined villain of many hit -pictures during the past few years, .-Rathbone proved himself the ■ first “heavy” to shoot to stardom. He was /‘typed!” But plenty of actors would •trade places with him if they could be ‘-typed” in his salary class as well — well in four figures. ' Rathbone wrote himself into infamy when he starred in, and was co-author Of “Judas,” one of his outstanding preHollywood stage hits. From then on, he boned up on skulduggery and .emerged as top man in his particular niche.

• In “The Sun Never Sets” he is a ! British consular official, who is dis- ■ graced by the lack of judgment of his younger brother. Fairbanks has the latter role. Virginia Field, Barbara O’Neil, Lionel Atwill, C. Aubrey Smith, Melville Cooper and Mary Forbes are in the cast. Rowland V. Lee produced and directed from a W. P. Lipscom screen play.