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London's fogs, which once romantically shrouded the nocturnal prowlings of Sherlock Holmes's Professor Moriarty,† Stevenson's Suicide Club and Mrs. Lowndes's Lodger, now veil an even grimmer killer: the estimated three tons of soot and ash that sift daily out of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Smoggles | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Sherlock Holmes brought Basil Rathbone to Broadway in a role he has played countless times in 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

Concerned chiefly with the theft of the Bruce-Partington submarine plans, the play bounced all over London before shifting to the Swiss chalet of Professor Moriarty (Thomas Gomez). Here Holmes and his great adversary were locked in that death plunge from which Holmes had later (in the face of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

So far as it came-off at all. Sherlock Holmes did so as a museum piece that was being gently spoofed. But the spoofing, unfortunately, came off only at moments: for the most part the play, however rife with crime, merely swirled with inaction. It was lavishly produced. As Irene...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Nov. 9, 1953 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

The Crimson forward line suffered from its season-long inability to shoot. Center halfback Stacy Holmes came as close as anyone with a shot he took from the midfield stripe. It was a tremendous boot, even though the ball was as sodden as the field and weighed twice as much...

Author: By Peter G. Palches, | Title: Varsity Soccer Team Loses To Princeton in Mud, 2 to 0 | 11/9/1953 | See Source »

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