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2-A THE CHARLOTTE (N C) NFATS- -MONDAY MY 9 1949 Wishing Weil Registered 8 Patent Office dn dJ) IE A DC Service Store Your General Electric Store Radio in Review By John Crosby TTERE Is a pleasant little game that will give you a message every day It Is a numerical puzzle designed to spell out your fortune Count the letters In your first name If the number of letters Is 6 or more subtract 4 If the number is less than 6 add 3 The result is your Icey number Start at the upper left-hand comer of the rectangle and check every one of your key numbers left to right Then read the message the letters under the checked figures give you Business Club To Sponsor Lectures The Small Business enterprise Club of the Johnson Smith University Economics Department will present May 9-12 a series of lectures with a theme of "Small Business As A Thus will be the opening topic of discussion by the mam speaker Smith assistant manager of the Charlotte District of the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co Tuesday Attorney Thomas Wyche will talk and Wednesday the topic of discussion will be A Business And Banking by Florence assistant cashier of the Commercial National Bank On Thursday Marion Davis president of the Marion Davis Co will be the speaker Each of these lectures will be held at 2 30 in the Library Annex of the University Library A question and answer period will follow each lecture he's completely un-understandable the most detached person I can think of in literature or history He lived for his cases There was no woman his life He was bored with vacations with people But when that knock came at the door he came Rathbone had a terrible time getting minds off Holmes In 1946 he was asked to play a Scotland Yard detective a radio series He was flabbergasted asked those people if they realize spent seven years making everyone at Scotland Yard look ridiculous I told them I can never play another detective played the greatest of them all But he did The radio senes "Scotland in which Rathbone played the part of Inspector Burke lasted a year and was never very successful Its failure Rathbone says was foreordained Inspector Burke was much too smart to be in Scotland Yard which everyone knows is staffed by blithering Idiots Rathbone then gae up the detective business for a bit to plav in the stage version of Hen-rv where crime was committed in a human spirit leaving no noticeable outer bruises Early this year though Rathbone got back in the detective racket this time Strictly as an amateur in a dubious program called of The original idea was that this be based on own life It work out well While Sherlock Holmes's personality is susceptible of almost infinite variation personality The Rathbone experiences ran dry in about ten weeks sine? then the senes has been run along more orthodox lines which is to say the plots are downright fantastic However Basil Rathbone (known on this program as Basil Rathbone) is no Holmes no Inspector Burke no expert at all He just blunders through each case exhibiting only ordinary intelligence something the average Holmes fan may find difficult to believe In one episode his pal Detective Farrell remarked crisply to him: up off the floor Rathbone and stop acting like Sherlock Holmes Basil Rathbone an actor in flight from a character remarked with deep feeling: had to get away or Sherlock Holmes would hae absorbed me completely William Gillette (who played Holmes for roughly a generation on the stage finally built himself a big house full of trap doors and things and went around in a 'cap and cape like Holmes Holmes is teo big for Rathbone is still a couple of decades behind Gillette as a portrayer of Sher- lock Holmes but had more than enough Gregory Ratoff first suggested him in the role of Holmes to Dar-ryl Zanuck about ten years ago Zanuck thought it was a fine idea In the next seven years Rathbone played Sherlock in sixteen pictures The radio senes started shoitly after the release of the first picture and it too went on for just seven vears Then in 1946 Rathbone threw up his hands thought I was he declared grimly "They thought be back like a bad little boy I told them be willing to play Holmes on the radio but be in the East They thought I leave all those oranges If they knew how I loathed When Rathbone be budged out of New York the Sherlock Holmes program had to go on without him Tom Conway an actor who sounds almost exactly like Rathbone went into the part Rathbone take kindly to this imitation of him resent intensely the way they imitate what we did as well as give the impression I am still on the program too bad there isn't a law against plagarizing a man's Rathbone claims he still gets hundreds of letters from people congratulating him on his performance "last as Sherlock Holmes which he played for three years The Holmes character while it has provided Rathbone a nice living for years was not an unmixed blessing It dogged his tracks long after quit Rathbone lost out on one part in a play because the author told him he was too closely identified with the great detective was the most difficult character I've ever had to plav From the American point of view 00 BUYS A HEW 1949 GENERAL ELECTRIC REFRIGERATOR Here's Why than the new low prices You get other values with this General Electric Space Maker refrigerator Fifty percent more refrigerated food storage space than older models occupying the same floor space! 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