"the snake wrong, a theory that the swamp adder was an artificial hybrid between the Mexican Gila monster (""Heloderma suspectum"") and ""Naja naja"". His speculation suggests that Doyle might have hidden a double-meaning in Holmes' words. What Holmes said, reported by Watson, was ""It is a swamp adder, the deadliest snake in India""; but Klauber suggested what Holmes really said was ""It is a ""samp-aderm"", the deadliest skink in India."" ""Samp-aderm"" can be translated ""snake-Gila-monster"": ""Samp"" is Hindi for snake, and the suffix ""aderm"" is derived from ""heloderm"", the common or vernacular name of the Gila monster generally used by"
"The Adventure of the Speckled Band ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" is one of the 56 short Sherlock Holmes stories written by Scottish author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is the eighth of the twelve stories collected in ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". It is one of four Sherlock Holmes stories that can be classified as a locked room mystery. The story was first published in ""Strand Magazine"" in February 1892, with illustrations by Sidney Paget. It was published under the different title ""The Spotted Band"" in ""New York World"" in August 1905. Doyle later revealed that he thought"
"The Speckled Band (1931 film) The Speckled Band is a 1931 British film directed by Jack Raymond and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" and the play he adapted from it, ""The Speckled Band"". The film features Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson investigating the fears of a young woman and the suspicious death of her sister. The film begins on the Rylott estate with gypsies camping on the grounds. Inside the mansion, Violet Stonor screams in her bedroom and then collapses in the hallway. She is discovered by her sister, Helen"
"felt that Massey didn't at all look the part opining ""he looked like almost any nice, young, brown-haired college boy, wrapped in a dormitory dressing gown, smoking a bulldog pipe."" Mordaunt Hall of ""The New York Times"" disagreed saying ""Mr. Massey's performance is pleasing, intelligent and restrained"" and said of the film """"The Speckled Band"" succeeds in being moderately interesting."" The Speckled Band (1931 film) The Speckled Band is a 1931 British film directed by Jack Raymond and an adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle's original story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" and the play he adapted from it, ""The"
"short story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"". It premièred 8 years later, at the Adelphi Theatre, London on 4 June 1910, with H. A. Saintsbury as Sherlock Holmes and Lyn Harding as Dr. Grimesby Roylott. The play, originally entitled ""The Stonor Case"", differs from the story in several small details, such as the names of some of the characters. The Crown Diamond: An Evening With Mr Sherlock Holmes (1921) ""The Crown Diamond"" is an alternate version of the short story ""The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone"" though it predates its counterpart by some time, Sometime during the original run"
"interesting personality in the villain. The terrible ending was also against it."" However, it was a considerable success and saved a difficult – almost a desperate – situation. Another criticism of the play is that the form of the Sherlock Holmes short stories is missing. Holmes appears late in the narrative, while the ending is missing Holmes' explanations of how he came to his deductions – considered de rigueur among Holmes aficionados. The production moved to New York. There was a London revival of this play in 1921. The Adventure of the Speckled Band ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"""
"of the Speckled Band"" has the shape of crocus, the flower Holmes mentions in the original. Besides Holmes's violin is on the shelf for personal belongings near his bed. Some words and conversation in the series seem to reference the series, ""Sherlock"". Most of the animals in the show are voiced by Kōichi Yamadera. Episodes 5 and 6 were to be broadcast on 20 and 22 August 2014 by GTV, but the schedule was revised because of the broadcast about the landslide in Hiroshima that occurred on 20 August. ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" is the sixth episode broadcast"
"script. Conan Doyle was ""charmed with the play, the acting, and the pecuniary result,"" and determined to cash in on its popularity. He wrote his own play in what he later referred to as ""record time,"" and so saved the situation. ""The Speckled Band"" was Arthur Conan Doyle's third stageplay and was the second Holmes dramatization. It was based with some modifications on the short story of the same name which, according to Adrian Conan Doyle, was his father's favorite Sherlock Holmes tale. Conan Doyle engaged H. A. Saintsbury, who had toured with the Gillette company, to portray Sherlock Holmes;"
"two collections set in Napoleonic times featuring the French character Brigadier Gerard. Doyle's stage works include ""Waterloo"", the reminiscences of an English veteran of the Napoleonic Wars, the character of Gregory Brewster being written for Henry Irving; ""The House of Temperley"", the plot of which reflects his abiding interest in boxing; ""The Speckled Band"", after the short story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band""; and the 1893 collaboration with J.M. Barrie on the ""libretto"" of ""Jane Annie"". While living in Southsea, the seaside resort of Portsmouth, Doyle played football as a goalkeeper for Portsmouth Association Football Club, an amateur side,"
"names differ from the original short story; the story's Roylott becomes Rylott, Julia Stoner becomes Violent Stoner. Some characters appeared in the play and film that weren't in the original story such as Mrs. Staunton the housekeeper, Rodgers the butler, and the Indian servant Ali. The film also altered the famous address of 221B Baker Street to 107 Baker Street and makes it a state-of-the-art office complete with secretaries and stenographers. Vincent Starrett found Massey's performance lacking saying ""Mr. Massey as Sherlock Holmes, in ""The Speckled Band"", most famous perhaps of all the Holmes adventures, was a considerable disappointment."" Starrett"
"In the 1930s, writer, actress, and producer Edith Meiser was largely responsible for first bringing Holmes to American radio listeners. Meiser, loved the Holmes stories, helped sell the show to the NBC radio network and found a sponsor. She wrote the show by herself for 12 years [1930–1942], both adapting Doyle's classic tales as well as writing new adventures in the Holmesian style. The first show she adapted was ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band."" It was broadcast on October 20, 1930, and featured William Gillette in the lead role. Various actors played the Holmes and Watson parts in the"
"""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" and makes explicit reference to ""The Adventure of the Devil's Foot"". Consulting detective Sherlock Holmes fakes his own death in Scotland in order to investigate a number of bizarre apparent suicides that he is convinced are part of an elaborate plot by ""a female Moriarty"". Returning to his assistant Watson in secret, Holmes notes that all the victims were wealthy gamblers, so disguised as ""Rajni Singh"", a distinguished Indian officer, he stalks London's gaming clubs. It is not long before he encounters the villain of the piece, Adrea Spedding. Holmes discovers that she seeks"
"""A Study in Scarlet"", ""The Sign of Four"", ""The Boscombe Valley Mystery"", ""The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter"", and ""The Adventure of the Naval Treaty"". It includes the very first mention of the phrase ""Elementary, my dear Watson"". While Conan Doyle wrote the original version, it is unclear how much of his material survived in the play as performed, which was written by Gillette. Conan Doyle and Gillette later revised the play together; it has since been revised by others twice. The Speckled Band (or The Stonor Case) (1902) Around 1902, Doyle wrote and produced a play based on his"
"to gather outside the Buffs Club on the corner of the Crumlin Road and Century Street, where their numbers were swollen by other young men from in and around the Shankill. The imposing Hodgen, who for a time had a red-white-and-blue mohican and had tattoos on his head of the Union Flag and the legend ""Oi! Skins"", became the most recognised face of the gang. The gang became involved in petty crime, progressing steadily into more violent activities and even formed a Rock Against Communism-styled band called ""Offensive Weapon"". Although Hodgen did not play with the group he and another"
"She is the youngest of the Lane family, her older siblings being, in presumed ascending order, Trent, Penny, Wind and Summer Lane. Trent is a perpetually lazy grunge rock musician who performs in the garage band Mystik Spiral (a running joke being that the band are always seemingly thinking about changing the name, but never do); Penny, a disillusioned backpacker with a fondness for animals; Wind, an emotionally damaged three-time divorcé and Summer, a worn-out mother of four, including Jane's niece Courtney and nephew Adrian. Jane and Trent were the only two Lanes residing in the Lane household for the"
"a '60s surf band called The Corvairs, while Isaiah played in a punk band called Billy Barf and the Vomitones. In ""Mason & Dixon"", one of the characters plays on the ""Clavier"" the varsity drinking song that will later become ""The Star-Spangled Banner""; while in another episode a character remarks tangentially ""Sometimes, it's hard to be a woman"". In his introduction to ""Slow Learner"", Pynchon acknowledges a debt to the anarchic bandleader Spike Jones, and in 1994, he penned a 3000-word set of liner notes for the album ""Spiked!"", a collection of Jones's recordings released on the short-lived BMG Catalyst"
"unlikely people: Malini who plays keyboards secretly due to her conservative father's opposition to music, Bikki an extrovert Punjabi girl who plays tambourine and Kajal, a hot headed rebellious girl who plays drums. The four of them create a band of their own, called ""Pink Band"" and try to break the stereotypes regarding music, bands and norm of society and soon become idol by other girls. The queen bee of the school Koel is jealous of them and leaves no stone unturned to sabotage the band. Despite all odds the band sticks together and the story shows how they achieve"
"The Band Concert The Band Concert is a 1935 American animated short film produced in 3-strip Technicolor by Walt Disney Productions and released by United Artists. The film was the first ""Mickey Mouse"" film produced in color and remains one of the most highly acclaimed of the Disney shorts. The story is about a small music band conducted by Mickey Mouse which struggles through a distraction-filled public performance. ""The Band Concert"" was directed by Wilfred Jackson and featured adapted music by Leigh Harline. The only speaking character in the film is Donald Duck who is performed by voice actor Clarence"
"so small that, whereas the other two sets were divided into several groups, Series III was only divided into two groups. However, Series III did bring something new to the table, as each figure had its own accessory, which had a scent of its own. The Band This group revolved entirely around musicians, one of which was a girl, a first for the series. Skunk Punk, the apparent guitarist of the band, was used in Series I. Smellville's Finest This group focused entirely on the adults of Smellville, also a first for the series. The adults apparently stink like the"
"A Tangled Tale A Tangled Tale is a collection of 10 brief humorous stories by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), published serially between April 1880 and March 1885 in ""The Monthly Packet"" magazine. Arthur B. Frost added illustrations when the series was printed in book form. The stories, or Knots as Carroll calls them, present mathematical problems. In a later issue, Carroll gives the solution to a Knot and discusses readers' answers. The mathematical interpretations of the Knots are not always straightforward. The ribbing of readers answering wrongly – giving their names – was not always well received (see Knot"
"of the Speckled Band"" as his overall favourite. Arthur Conan Doyle began writing while studying medicine at university in the late 1870s, and had his first short story, ""The Mystery of Sasassa Valley"", published in September 1879. After eight years, ""A Study in Scarlet"", Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, was published by Ward Lock & Co. The novel was well received, but Doyle was paid little for it, and despite a sequel novel, ""The Sign of the Four"", which was published in Lipincott's Monthly Magazine, he shifted his focus to short stories. In early 1891, the first editor of ""The"
"the device and causing Leonard to writhe around in front of a gathering crowd in a weird snake dance, while Spanky's band plays ""Stars and Stripes Forever"". The Lucky Corner The Lucky Corner is a 1936 ""Our Gang"" short comedy film directed by Gus Meins. It was the 143rd ""Our Gang"" short to be released. Scotty and his grandfather Gus are the proprietors of a sidewalk lemonade stand. The small operation struggles to compete with the ornate sidewalk diner run by Leonard's father. Leonard is too engrossed in his comic book to pay attention to waiting customers, and when they"
"Journal"". The Spectacles (short story) ""The Spectacles"" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844. It is one of Poe's comedy tales. The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to ""Simpson"" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, ""resolutely refused to employ them"". His companion Talbot identifies the woman as"
"""Eyes of Amber and Other Stories"": According to Joan Vinge, ""Tin Soldier"" had two primary inspirations. The first was the song ""Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)"" by the band Looking Glass which had been a ""Billboard"" Hot 100 #1 hit in 1972, shortly before Vinge wrote the story. The second, as the title suggests, was Hans Christian Andersen's short story ""The Steadfast Tin Soldier"" and its tale of a crippled toy soldier who falls in love with a paper ballerina. Vinge commented: Tin Soldier (novella) ""Tin Soldier"" is a 17,500-word science fiction novella by American writer Joan D. Vinge, her"
"his short story ""Rikki-Tikki-Tavi"" (the other two villains being a pair of black cobras). In another Kipling short story, """", a servant arrested for murder cheats the rope by stepping on a ""karait"". Roald Dahl uses the krait as a device in his short story ""Poison"". A version of ""Poison"" is shown in Alfred Hitchcock Presents (TV series) October 5, 1958, and remade in ""Tales of the Unexpected"" March 29, 1980. The deadly snake in the Sherlock Holmes story ""The Adventure of the Speckled Band"" may have been a krait, although it is described in that work as an ""Indian"
"is running for mayor of New York ""again"", leaving the fate of the rest of the characters unknown. The novel has several narrators, all of which are members of the band formed by Moz and Pearl. The book was originally only from one character's perspective, but was switched so the perspective was shared between the characters. This method is used to show different story lines existing simultaneously, and reactions of different characters to events that have transpired among the others. Moz is bitter, pessimistic and witty about life. He is described as 'small', thus his nickname comes from 'mosquito'. He"
"Henpecked Henpecked is a 1930 animated short produced by Walter Lantz that features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. Oswald is playing piano in his apartment room, singing a swing song. Just then, a disturbed bear from another room comes in and confronts him. The bear sternly tells Oswald to quit playing and ensure silence. Oswald hesitantly agrees to the demands. A moment later, a frog from a glass bowl jumps out and lands on some piano keys before leaping out of the scene. In this, the bear picks up the piano and tosses it out the window. Before the bruin leaves,"
"European naturalists. Skinks are lizards of the family Scincidae, many of which are snake-like in form. Such a hybrid reptile will have a venom incomparably strengthened by hybridization, assuring the almost instant demise of the victim. And it will also have ears like any lizard, so it could hear the whistle, and legs and claws allowing it to run up and down the bell cord with a swift ease. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle himself wrote a stage play based on ""The Speckled Band"". In December 1909, Conan Doyle had leased the Adelphi Theatre in the Strand for a production of"
"by a London-based pop group The Spectrum, assembled by RCA Victor as an imitation of the American band The Monkees, who happened to share their name with the organisation that appears in ""Captain Scarlet"". In addition to the main theme, Gray scored incidental music for 18 episodes of ""Captain Scarlet"" between March and December 1967. Musical accompaniment for the remaining 14 episodes was achieved by re-using these completed tracks as well as music from previous Anderson productions such as ""Thunderbirds"". In composing his incidental music, Gray made extensive use of two contrasting, yet similar, themes to illustrate Spectrum and the"
"The Spectacles (short story) ""The Spectacles"" is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1844. It is one of Poe's comedy tales. The narrator, 22-year-old Napoleon Bonaparte Froissart, changes his last name to ""Simpson"" as a requirement to inherit a large sum from a distant cousin, Adolphus Simpson. At the opera he sees a beautiful woman in the audience and falls in love instantly. He describes her beauty at length, despite not being able to see her well; he requires spectacles but, in his vanity, ""resolutely refused to employ them"". His companion Talbot identifies the woman as Madame"
"The Bandmaster (1930 film) The Bandmaster is a short animated film distributed by Columbia Pictures, and one of the long-running cartoons featuring Krazy Kat. In a reissue print by Samba Pictures, the film is simply presented as Bandmaster. At a domed platform at a park, a pack of musicians gathered, and Krazy is their conductor. Krazy, for some reason, puts on a Guy Fawkes mask before playing ""Stars and Stripes Forever"". Halfway through the music, a trumpeter is having some problems playing. But instead of reprimanding the trumpeter, the feline maestro courteously gives that player encouragement to perform better. The"
"power. The two girls decided to start a band and enlist their two male friends, Raphael and Angel Juan. As their band becomes successful, the other members acquire magical items to wear. Raphael begins to wear goat pants, Angel Juan gets horns, and Cherokee gets hoof-like boots. However, these items begin to lead them down a path of drugs, sex, and jealousy and things begin to unravel. In the end, Cherokee, disturbed by the changes in her friends, makes off with the magical costumes, causing her friends to re-examine their choices and find their way back to their normal selves."
"the young girls into older female popstars. When they accidentally debuted the concert, the three girls were known as ""Lil' Pri"". Now, they must use their songs to draw and collect Happiness Tones from humans in order to restore Fairyland. Ringo is a sweet and adventurous girl, curly and short pink hair with a red headband, red eyes, she wears a white shirt long sleeves with a pink vest with a red bow, a red skirt and a dark yellow boots. (in summer she wears a white shirt short sleeves with a red bow, a pink and light pink skirt"