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...Hound of the Baskervilles
...impersonators of Sherlock Holmes must stand comparison with William Gillette, who created the role on the stage. Basil Rathbone acquits himself fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings...
They stage most of their hunts at night, racing hound against hound. From a fireside circle on a hilltop, owners get a vicarious thrill recognizing the voices of their beloved hounds echoing and reechoing, as they cry the fox in the dark distance...
Once a year, a grand get-together of U. S. foxhunters (hilltoppers and hunt-club members alike) is held-under the auspices of the National Foxhunters' Association-for the purpose of holding field trials, a hound show and horse show. At Winchester, Ky. last week swank Eastern socialites, sombreroed Texas ranchers, rich Oklahoma Indians and Kentucky hillbillies met on common ground at the 45th annual foxhunters' jamboree. Competitions were open to any foxhunter who had paid his $5 membership fee to the national association...
...Cast in the role of Sherlock Holmes in Twentieth Century-Fox's forthcoming Hound of the Baskervilles was lean, long-nosed Basil Rathbone. Watson: Nigel Bruce...