SHERLOCK HOLMES.
Author reminiscent, CHARLIE CHAPLIN’S PART. LONDON, Dec. 6. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, speaking at the Savage Club’s annual dinner, said that when he was practising as a doctor he blacked his own boots and poured water on his hat to gloss it in order to incite confidence in his patients. Referring to “Sherlock Holmes, ’’Sir Arthur attributed its success to the fact that each story was self-contain-ed. The serial point occurred to him when he was practising, and had to fill in long waits between patients. “I made the mistake of my life over the drama,” (Jir Arthur added. “At a London theatre there was once a small boy playing the page in ‘Sherlock Holmes.’ If I had said to him: “Although I've a fairly good income and you’ve only £2 a week, I’ll go halves with you for life,’ I would have done exceedingly well, for the small boy’s name was Charlie Chaplin.”
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Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 19 December 1925, Page 5
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