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...SHERLOCK HOLMES by WILLIAM GILLETTE...
...Chinese customs prevailed in the West, this might be known as the Year of Sherlock Holmes. He is on the bestseller lists in a novel entitled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, in which Sigmund Freud allies himself with Holmes, sharing, among other things, a mutual addiction to cocaine. Books about Holmes and his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, already formidable in number, are proliferating with the breeding speed of the fruit fly. One Manhattan bookstore has an entire window display devoted solely to these works. There is only one James Joyce Society, but in the U.S. alone there are four...
...visit to Broadway's Broadhurst Theater, where the 75-year-old American drama has been handsomely restored by England's Royal Shakespeare Company, proffers at least one clue to the enduring fascination of Sherlock Holmes. He has the mythic quality of a seer. He is a master illusionist of the mind, a cerebral magician. He simply does not belong in the ordinary annals of sleuthdom. Even such outstanding detectives as Nero Wolfe, Inspector Maigret and Philo Vance pile up and sift the facts. Holmes notes the evidence with something like X-ray vision and pulverizes it with weary...
Lady in Distress. If any of us lives to see a more perfect embodiment of Sherlock Holmes than that offered by John Wood it will only be by some special dispensation of Thespis. Little known to U.S. theatergoers except for his Guildenstern in Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Wood belongs among the top dozen actors of the English-speaking stage. His voice is an organ of incisive command. He moves with the lithe, menacing grace of a puma. In an instant, he can range from partygoer prankishness to inner desolation. At the core of his being...
...fantasy of every Sherlockian that Sherlock Holmes, with Dr. John H. Watson, did in fact pursue justice among the befogged and criminalled London streets of the late 19th century, and that Dr. A. Conan Doyle was merely the alter ego Watson annexed so as to fictionalize his accounts. Fantasy perhaps, but with the publication of The Seven-Per-Cent Solution, we have at last some substantiation that Watson, at least, actually lived--and died in 1940--and that Doyle was only the distracted doctor and inoffensive scribbler we'd like him to be. We owe these revelations to Nicholas Meyer...