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...Sherlock, Jr. A cinema operator (Buster Keaton) falls asleep at his machine and dreams he is a great detective-the kind that only the cinema can produce. The unexpected, fantastic dream situations lend themselves to some remarkable trick effects, including one in which Buster walks right out of an audience and into a picture on the screen, only to be promptly hurled back into the audience by one of the players acting on the silver sheet...
...intelligent reflection. Although only two native sons are among the elect, and incidentally no daughters from any nation--it is extremely doubtful whether, had the vote taken, place in Great Britain, Owen Wister and O.Henry would not have yielded their places to Sir James Barrie and the creator of Sherlock Holmes...
...modern "Sherlock Holmes" seems to be following Sir Arthur Conan Doyle into the realm of the psychic. No longer does Scotland Yard, at the all-powerful command of Doyle, call the great detective from a lift of deep research to help in solving all the particularly difficult and interesting murders. Nowadays Commissioner Enright of the New York Police Force calls in Rafael Schermann, famous Polish "psycho-graphologist" to help him solve the enigmatic Elwell case. Verily, truth is stranger than fiction! Thirty odd years ago, every one regarded Sherlock Holmes, the scientific detective, as a type to be found only...
...eventual disentanglement of its complexities. It is the quaint, initial assassination itself, the atmosphere of brooding horror, the haunted eyes of De Medici, that fling the reader of The Florentine Dagger (TIME, Sept. 3) into a bewildered Nirvana of goose flesh and insomnia. It is the mental gymnastics of Sherlock Holmes or the chemical fumblings of Craig Kennedy that delight, rather than their eventual (and predictable) triumphs...
...Sherlock Holmes and his ilk rank Eros and Deadshot Dalton ranks the lot. The girls are more tender. Love stories are their first choice, comedies second, society life as known to the De Mille brothers third, and then come the Westerns. Serials, tragedies and stories " with sad endings " are out of favor with both sexes. And they just hate, or at least they say they do, the custard pie varieties of comedy, over-mushy yarns and films that are brutal or untrue to life...