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...late Actor Leslie Howard) as Holmes and H. Marion Crawford, grandson of Novelist F. Marion Crawford, as the bumbling Watson. Filmed in London and Paris by Sheldon (Foreign Intrigue) Reynolds, the opening show had a nice period flavor, but the script, written by Reynolds, was inferior to even the feeblest efforts of A. Conan Doyle...
Playwright Bowles's plot (complicated by a fatal accident offstage) and point (life must progress from fakery to reality) are the feeblest parts of her drama. But she wins high marks for theatricality and comic invention. Each of the five scenes is beautifully placed and paced. They are peopled with some fine original types, notably Mildred Dunnock as a tiptoeing mother who achieves a boozy sublimation after the death of her jet-propelled offspring (Muriel Berkson), Jean Stapleton, a triumphantly fun-loving barmaid, and Martita Reid, a Mexican dowager of sufficient force to faze even indomitable Actress Anderson. Director...
...movies and on radio. The play was not William Gillette's famous old warhorse. but a new and curious one by Ouida (Mrs. Basil) Rathbone. However it might strike Baker Street Irregulars, for Baker Street occasionals it had none of the thrills of detective drama, only the feeblest period charm, and mere hints of Holmes's personal glamour. A dull clutter of styles and stories, it closed after three performances...
Good satirists get so hot under the choler that they are always in danger of breaking out in a sentimental sweat-which is why many of them cling tightly to cold ferocity and suppress the feeblest spasms of affection. Satirist Evelyn Waugh has been no exception, but he is one of the few of his kind who has found the conflict between satirical art and goodness of heart a nagging, challenging problem. His ideal is the simple, honest "Christian gentleman"; Waugh cherishes things romantic, patriotic and traditional. Moreover, he is a religious man, whose irrepressible satirical arrogance is at variance...
...Electrons," he points out, "can supply the brains for the control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...