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...brash little Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is sure to be boffo all over the world. Last week Hammer's short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. In three years, Hammer's remakes of Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and other items from Hollywood's library of horror classics have earned more dollars from world sales than the products of any other British moviemaker in the last decade. Cracks...
Acting in behalf of the estate of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British author of the Sherlock Holmes series, Berman sued four Soviet state publishing houses and the Ministry of Culture for two million rubles from their profits in publishing Doyle's works, chiefly the Holmes stories...
...Doyle suit, however, is based on a provision of the Soviet Civil Code itself, which requires the reimbursement of any 'unjust enrichment' gain at the expense of another person or organization," Berman noted. "I hope that a decision in the Conan Doyle case may serve as the legal basis for a regular system of compensation...
...Tubby, secretary of the American Society for Psychical Research, encouraged the "young and eager psychic," and soon Ford was in London, way beyond the league of Snoddy, Tubby or even Moody. One night, several hundred pounds sterling worth of gems manifested themselves at a seance patronized by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Ford drew a garnet...
Apart from its inherent drama, the Casement story is compelling today because it raised political passions as strong as those later provoked by a Klaus Fuchs or an Alger Hiss. Bernard Shaw, Conan Doyle, G. K. Chesterton ringingly defended Casement. Others, including Poet Alfred Noyes, equally ringingly denounced him (this year, at 77, Poet Noyes published an emotional book reversing his earlier stand). It may have been a kind of Irish Faust who disappeared through the trap on the gallows of Pentonville Prison. Yet objective readers of Author MacColl's biography must agree that he was truly and justly...