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...Chinese coolie's into sharks was characteristic of the cinema activities of the late Ernest Torrence who died last fortnight after an operation for gallstones (TIME, May 22). He massacred Indians in The Covered Wagon, kidnapped children in Peter Pan and; as Professor Moriarity, almost did away with Sherlock Holmes. When he was a young man, Ernest Torrence planned to be a musician. He wrote the music for a play called The Lady from Lyons, was first baritone for the Savoy Opera Company in London. His lanky 6-ft. 4-in. physique, tufted eyebrows, gargoyle nose and prickly Scotch...
Detectives Black and Blue (lodent). Listeners may get a checked Sherlock Holmes fore...
...order to avoid marriage with the Governor of Zeeland. She is consequently imprisoned in a haunted mill. The two Americans, ConKidder and Kid Conner, rescue her. This unexpected disappearance from the mill occasions the offering of a large reward. A telegram is at once dispatched to the Hague summoning Sherlock Holmes, containing the declaration "money is no object." Intercepting this, the two Americans change their disguise to that of the English detective and his medical friend. They then "discover" the girl and collect the reward. There are other complications the denouement of which is that love triumphs over economics...
...movie has all the conventional dramatic machinery of its type, the amateur detective, the blameless hero and heroine upon whom suspicion falls, a psychopathic murderer, and to say more would give the plot away. Sherlock Holmes probably stirs uneasily in his grave when productions of this kind are made, but he need not be too disturbed, for the play makes no pretense of being more than...
Here, according to billboards, is "Conan Doyle's Immortal Story Masterfully Told." Here, "Masterfully," is Clive Brook at grips with modern gangsters, a Sherlock Holmes in love, a Sherlock Holmes who knows the cute trick of discovering biscuit crumbs on people's waistcoats, who pronounces "elementary" with the grand air, who jumps out of high balconies onto villainous necks, who wields acetylene torches and shoots to kill. This is no Sherlock Holmes, this is Hollywood's "Masterful" attempt to shatter an illusion...