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...over the Yard on the 30th of May or not, or march with your own local American Legion in the holiday parade. Casualty list: a good percentage of one Tactics group sunk and not without Trace ... in fact the tracing or tracking down was not in the least, as Sherlock Holmes would put it, "elementary" ... is was very, very systematic ... painstaking and "painsgiving," too--what maneuvering, man, oh man! The Target Ship must have been doing a Conga ... and still caught one amidships ... Note to signalman strikers ... for lessons in signaling (semaphore to you) with your feet, see Mr. Grant...
Five decades had brought to it almost every great theater figure from Ellen Terry to Helen Hayes. On its stage Sarah Bernhardt played in Camille, Olga Nethersole in Carmen, Mrs. Fiske in A Doll's House, Julia Marlowe in When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Gillette in Sherlock Holmes, Katharine Cornell in The Barretts of Wimpole Street...
...spies, old barns and Long Island villas, unbreakable codes and secret inks all play their usual part in this drama of intrigue. But in adding to these the skillful directing of Tim Whelan and the international atmosphere engendered by Ilona Massey as a Scandinavian singer, Boris Karloff as a Sherlock from the "Yard," and George Brent as an ex-All-American calling signals for the F.B.I., Hollywood has produced a show which proves that the capable handling of an old line can still provide an enjoyable evening. Done with skill and a restraint which forbids long-winded patriotic speeches...
...radio Sherlock Holmes, brash Mr. Skelton has become a national byword because of his beguiling skill at inventing and solving murder mysteries and sundry crimes. Such is his fame that he is kidnapped by a racketeering evangelist (Conrad Veidt) for the express purpose of devising a police-proof way of eliminating a human stumbling block to an inheritance the cultist has his eye on. Put to the test, The Fox-assisted by some expert mugging and a knowledge of radios -not only traps the evangelist but manages to produce considerable hilarity in the process...
Without the co-feature, Dead Men Tell, the show would have a hard time climbing out of the B ranking, but this latest Charlie Chan is different enough to be clever. Sidney Toler, Warner Olan's successor as China's Confucius-Sherlock Holmes combine manages to keep a boatload of psychopathic treasure hunters, a pirate ghost, and his number-two son well in tow. If you can see Chan. Even if you can't, see Hope--the dope...