Sherlock Holmes’ Mystery
TALL, spare and hawk-like, Basil Rathbone would seem to be the perfect type to play the classic role of Sherlock Holmes, just as Nigei Bruce suggests the perfect physical counterpart of Dr. Watson, for the film version of Conan Doyle's "The Hound of the Baskervilles,” one of the most hair-raising, spine-chilling mystery stories of English literature. The film has been produced by Darryl F. Zanuck.
Known as one of the best-dressed men in Hollywood, and a man of neat and orderly- habits, Rathbone has had troubles of an unusual sort in rounding out the details of the character of the famous detective. As conceived by the author, Conan Doyle, Holmes would get so engrossed in a case that he would become quite careless of his personal appearance.
Rathbone, however, would instinctively flick off the ashes from his pipe when they fell on his clothes, or would hitch up his trousers when sitting down, or stamp the dust off his shoes after a tramp on the moor. The result was that a wardrobe aide had to be assigned to the actor to keep him slightly untidy.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 15
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188Sherlock Holmes’ Mystery Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20017, 16 August 1939, Page 15
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