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...pound class Henry Sherlock '38 who boxed as a Freshman and who saw action in half of the matches last year, rates the call over Ed Richardson '39. The latter is very close to Sherlock but lacks experience to take over the post left vacant by John Weston "38. Weston has been a regular team man but has been forced to give up boxing...
...Unlike Sherlock Holmes, who had recourse to narcotics, Detective Nick Charles depends solely upon alcohol. In After the Thin Man, he sets a new record for deductive drinking. Fortified by a few nips aboard the train, he and his wife arrive in San Francisco to find a party already in progress at their house. After a few nips more, they go to a family dinner, where Nick drinks the other male guests into a stupor. When it turns out that the scapegrace husband of Mrs. Charles's pretty cousin (Elissa Landi) has mysteriously disappeared, Nick Charles finds...
...Fenian who lived in a garret and spouted Shakespeare to his grandchildren. Corney was in on the tragedy of Parnell's disgrace, touched politics when he was arrested for the death of a "peeler" that one of his friends killed. His passionate, pious, innocent sweetheart, Elsie Sherlock, saved him by telling the truth: he had been in the woods with her when the crime was committed...
...school, toured the provinces as a peddler, joined the army, prepared funeral wreaths for a florist to pay for diction lessons, after the ambition to be an actor was instilled by his first visit to a theatre- Lucien Guitry in Amants. Famed for his portrayal of Dr. Moriarty in Sherlock (1907), he was a member in good standing of the Paris pre-War esthete set, friend of Picasso, Apollinaire, Max Jacob. Forgotten by his public when the War was over, he worked his way up in bit parts, made his cinema debut in Gap Perdu (1930). U. S. audiences have...
...contrast with oldtime fiction operatives like Sherlock Holmes, whose deductive gifts were superhuman, Ashenden belongs to the modern school of sleuths whose fallibility makes them plausible. In Secret Agent he scuffs about hotel corridors, deserted churches, glaciers, the backstairs of a chocolate factory, wearing an unhappy frown which is at times reminiscent of Charles Butterworth's. Spy Ashenden's behavior is, however, less of a hindrance than a help to the picture, is indicative of the enormity of the hostile forces with which he is trying to deal. Directed by England's pudgy master of melodrama, Alfred...