Published In
Ann Arbor News, June 7, 1949
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Basil Rathbone, Broadway and Hollywood star, who plays Dr. Sloper in "The Heiress" which opens here tonight, ehlps Margaret Philips, star of "Summer and Smoke", go over her lines as the pair rehearse the dramatic tragedy, the fifth and last in the Drama Season at the Lydia Mendelssohn Theater.

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Published In
Ann Arbor News, June 6, 1969
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Margaret Phillips and Basil Rathbone check script prior to their Drama Season appearances in "The Heiress."

Published In
Ann Arbor News, March 27, 1940
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HAVE ROLES IN THE CRITIC: Four of the principals in Play Production's presentation of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's satire "The Critic," which will open a four-day run tonight in Lydia Mendelssohn Theater, are shown above in a scene from the play. They are, left to right, Marguerite Mink of Detroit, a senior University student, who has the role of Mrs. Dangle; A. Duane Nelson of Iron River, as Mr. Dangle; James W. Moll of Toledo, in the part of Mr. Puff, an author, and Hugh Norton of New York City as Mr. Sneer. The men are graduate University students. The play satirizes the pompousness and decorativeness of the early theater. Curtain time will be at 8:30.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, September 24, 1947
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Kol Nidre Services Held For Jewish Students: Jewish students and townspeople observed the Kol Nidre rites at Lydia Mendelssohn theater last night which opened the 24 hours of prayer and fasting that marks Yom Kippur or Day of Atonement. On the rostrum before the ceremonial curtain which covers the Ark of the Law are, left to right, Eugene Mallitz, Rabbi Herschel Lymon, Milton Jacobson and Jay Singer. Mallitz, Jacobson and Singer are University students who assisted Rabbi Lymon at the traditional ceremonies.

Published In
Ann Arbor News, May 31, 1950
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Basil Rathbone and Meg Munday, who are starring this week in "The Winslow Boy," described some of their theatrical experiences to these six Ann Arbor High students who visited them backstage at Lydia Mendelssohn Theater. Left to right are Liddie Reifel (seated), Sue Collins, Jerri Fox, Rathbone, Jerry Moon, Miss Mundy, Al Douglass and Nan Hannah.