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...performance. When the curtain rose, a slender, honev-haired girl was discovered at the mercy of international swindlers who coveted a package of letters in her possession. But the swindlers were not to prevail, for soon an amazingly lean, dignified, taciturn gentleman appeared to help the girl. He was Sherlock Holmes, detective. A fantastic seer, he had but to scan the unevenlv shaven cheeks of his friend Dr. Watson to tell him that he had altered the position of his dressing table. Scarcely had he known one lady for five minutes when he announced in his croaking voice that...
When the case led him into conflict with Professor Moriarty, beetling-browed ruler of London's underworld who held his councils in a fearsome catacomb, Sherlock blandly donned his double-peaked cap and walked into the Professor's ambush-a lethal chamber. He smashed the single lamp, deluded his captors by leaving his glowing cigar on a window ledge, escaped with the frightened maiden. When he had later trapped the diabolical Professor with more such nonchalant magic, it appeared that Sherlock would marry the girli, albeit he was a poor insurance risk, sustained in the approved...
Hoilis--William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes." An old favorite in the first of the detective stories...
...other feature on the bill Clive Brooks gives an amusing and interesting interpretation of Conan Doyle's famous character, Sherlock Holmes...
...RETURN OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (Clive Brook)?British mysteriousness at its best among international wire tappers...