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...Michael Shayne, Private Detective" is a grade B show which deserves an A minus. The plot, as is customary in Hollywood murder mysteries, tells how a private detective outsmarts the public defectives. But Lloyd Nolan raises the show way above average by an excellent performance as the sport-coated Sherlock Holmes...
...most unlikely that Ellory Queen, Nero Wolfe, or even an up-to-date version of Sherlock Holmes could hold a job in a modern police organization...
Written by William Gillette, the man who made Sherlock Holmes a stage personality, the comedy includes two cases of mistaken identify revolving around three love affairs. Since the time of the play is about 1900, the cast will be fully costumed. The scenery is being designed by Ted Werch...
Died. Lady Conan Doyle, 65, widow of Spiritualist-Writer Arthur Conan Doyle (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, etc.) with whom she claimed to have been in communication since his death in 1930; of heart failure after an operation; in London...
...CASE OF THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS-Anthony Boucher-Simon and Schuster ($2). Murder of a script writer who is about to mangle The Speckled Band for Producer F. X. Weinberg. Five of the Irregulars-professional men deep-steeped in Sherlock-Holmesiana - forgather in Hollywood as F. X.'s guests, to advise on the picture. Each has an extraordinary adventure, adapted from some case of Holmes's. The script writer turns out to be a bad man as well as a bad writer...