SHERLOCK HOLMES THRILLER

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22768, 21 July 1939, Page 18

SHERLOCK HOLMES THRILLER

“The Hound of the Baskervilles At Mayfair

Sherlock Holmes is brought to the screen, in the thrilling version of his famous “The Hound of the BaskervUles’’ beginning to-day at the Mayfair. The classic, one of literature’s most spine-chiliing mystery stories, has been transfererd to the screen to celluloid with thrilling realism, with BasO. Rathbone in the part of the famous Holmes.

send them to the great Sherlock Holmes, and his equally famous aide, Dr. Watson fNigel .Bruce). Holmes enters the case and his amazing deductions result in the tracking down of the strange beast and the’ solution of tyre mystery of the moors, just in time to save, Sir Henry from his uncle’s fate. “The Hound of the Baskervilles’’ was directed for Twentieth Century-Fox by Sidney Lanfield. The cast includes John Carradine, Barlowe Borland. Morton Lowry and Ralph Forbes.

For background the picture has perfectly reproduced the misty, fqgEhrouded ■ moor in England’s Devonshire country, where a ghostly hound is believed to wander, leaving a terrifying trail of horror and chilling the blood of the countryside with its unearthly howls. On. Dartmoor’s edge stands the gloomy old Baskerville mansion, to which young Sir Henry Baskerville (Richard Gfeene) has come from Canada to claim his' inheritance. It has been closed .since the mysterious death of his Uncle Charles, Preoccupied with his whirlwind romance with his pretty neighbour Beryl Stap.eton (Wendy Barrie), Sir Henry laughs at the stories about the hound. But Dr. Mortimer (Lionel Atwill) and his spiritualist wife (Beryl Mercer) have clues to Sir Charles’ murder that

LUISE RAINER IN LONDON “Behold the Bride,” by Jacques Deval, in which Liiise Rainer made her London bow in May. ia,,said to have given her few opportunities to show her abilities. - Critics unanimously described the play—about a French girl who masquerades as a housemaid in the New York home of her parents-in-law—as a very ordinary piece of sentimentality not even serving to provide; a good vehicle for Miss Rainer. “It: was pitiful to see how the flimsy structure recked every time she turned on the full force of her most expressive | talent,” wrote ,W. A. Darlington in the “Daily Telegraph.” “Ipe Times” critic suggested, “a Iggs skittjish part would discover in her qualities of repose and strength which here., she has -no opportunity to express.”

TJj® latent advice on current activities in, Gauxnont . British Studios in Lbndon gjiows that “Doctor’s Dilemma,”, by George Bernard Shaw, is ISbw in preparation, and will be produced by Gabriel Pascal, who produced “Pyfflnalion.” Grade Fields is schedUledin .“Shipyard Sally,” a story concerning- the building of the Queen Elizabeth, and* likewise in “Sam and Sally” or “Hindle Wakes” with Will Fyfje. “Hangman’s House,” Dqjm Bjane’s story, with George Sanders and the Gate and Abbey players, and that bid favourite "Charley’s Aunt” are ■lzo-liu ■

According to a . Hollywood critic, ‘.‘Helen Twelvetrbes comes through with a fine performance in Paramount’s ‘Unmarried,’ in. the role of a tough Broadway danie with a heart of gold. This is : different from the type of role she.has been playing, and Miss Twelvetrees carves a new niche for herself-in. pictures.”