Quite often during those days in Cornwall, Holmes would stride out alone. Good day to you.Īncient tombs scattered throughout the lengthened breath of this peninsula. His sister and two brothers live there but he chooses to live apart.ĭo you know dinner at the vicarage is a splendid idea. Tregennis, who has a suite of rooms in the house. Oh no alas, I have no family I live alone except for Mr. Oh then we should impose upon you and your family? Perhaps you'd care to come and have dinner with me one evening at the vicarage. However, I've imposed enough upon you for one day. Very nice people and I'm sure they'll extend to you some fine Cornish hospitality. No, no, the Tregennis Estate is about a mile inland. I suppose is that the nearest habitation? It's secluded but it caters for all our needs. Precise in every detail but how sir? How? You are the Reverend Francis Roundhay, vicar of the parish.Įxactly right. You've published a paper over theories surrounding the neolithic burial rites. Oh Watson, you're coming along marvelously.

Which indicates that you've knelt on the ground for a length of time. You've got mud on the points of your shoes and beneath your knees and on the fingers of your right hand. You have an interest in archeology do you not? It is indeed a pleasure, sir.Ī thousand apologies, I should have realized. I thought as we were going to be neighbors for the next few weeks.

Your friend is a natural historian I presume?Īn old acquaintance from my college days. Well we're looking at the most dangerous piece of coastline in the country. The sea air will do you the world of good. Listen, Holmes, Doctor Moor Agar insists you have a complete rest if you wish to avoid an absolute breakdown. Enjoyable: historic.What does a Harley Street specialist know about my health? Probably these two-reel Stoll shorts didn't get much marketing in America-Hollywood productions were going strong by the '20's and maybe there wasn't much interest. Orson Welles, in an introduction to a radio production, paid high tribute to Gillette Bosley Crowther, an influential New York theater critic, wrote 'I would rather see William Gillette play Sherlock Holmes than to be a child again on Christmas morning.' At eighty-three years old, he starred in the very first Holmes radio show, on 20 October 1930.

Mr Norwood set a high standard for subsequent Holmes interpreters, though it appears William Gillette, who played the part on stage for twenty years, exerted more of an influence. I hope more of there titles turn up, and I hope someone restores these shorts someday. The staging is good the acting fine the action fairly crisp. Here is a great Holmes story, well adapted and produced on location-at least, the exteriors look like Cornwall.

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