![]() Lyn Harding, as the half epileptic and wholly formidable Doctor Grimesby Rylott, was most masterful, while Saintsbury as Sherlock Holmes was also very good. I do not think that I exaggerate if I say that within a fortnight of the one play shutting down I had a company working upon the rehearsals of a second one, which had been written in the interval. I wrote it in a week and called it "The Speckled Band" after the short story of that name. When I saw the course that things were taking I shut myself up and devoted my whole mind to making a sensational Sherlock Holmes drama. After the withdrawal of my dramatization of "Rodney Stone" from a theatre upon which I held a six months' lease, I determined to play a bold and energetic game, for an empty theatre spells ruin. « The impression that Holmes was a real person of flesh and blood may have been intensified by his frequent appearance upon the stage. Sidelights on Sherlock Holmes (december 1917) with a funny anecdote about snakes : Hamilton Jordan (SH) and Stuart Lomath (Rylott)Īrthur Conan Doyle remembered the play in his autobiography Memories and Adventures: chapter XI. ![]() ![]() Corney Grain (SH) and Walter Ringham (Rylott) Saintsbury (SH) and Herbert Waring (Rylott) ![]()
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