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Undergraduate Advisor 1966-7; Harvard Classical Club, vice-president, 1966-7; North House Committee 1963-7; Holmes Hall Dormitory Committee 1965-6; Byzantine-Russian Liturgical Choir 1965-6; Cantori da Chiesa, 1964-5; freshman chorus; Young Dems, 1964-5; Phi Beta Kappa.
Eerie Fanaticism. The earliest foot age, shot in 1900 by Professional Traveler Burton Holmes, contains a profusion of reminiscent vignettes: U.S. occupation troops play broomstick polo in Peking during the Boxer Rebellion; a throne-room sequence shows the last Manchu ruler, the depraved Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi. There are shots...
The studies require an attention to minute details that would have put Sherlock Holmes to shame. The Dennison replica, for example, has tiny marks, meant to represent hammer dents, in the floor. Though they are easy to miss, they are essential clues to solving the murder.
Hill can needle too, and he does it with an admirably straight face. Under his wry direction, John Neville and Donald Houston play Holmes and Watson with a quaint and slightly stilted charm that defines them as exactly what they are: impressive pieces of Victorian bric-a-brac. Houston gustily...
Between the two passes a variety of dialogue that, if the moviegoer squints a little, can be seen to issue from their lips on little cross-stitched samplers, which just sort of hang there on the screen and give off a faint scent of sachet. Holmes: "I wish to see...