Ouida Rathbone Play
In 1953, Basil Rathbone starred on Broadway in "Sherlock Holmes" -- not the William Gillette play but a new one by Rathbone's wife Ouida. Famously (or infamously) it only lasted 3 performances....
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davl, dunno if the text is readily available; but see RATHBONE TV thread for an opinion of it.
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"Broadway! It took me to the cleaners, old boy. I should have known better than to take my production of SHERLOCK HOLMES to Broadway. During our tryout period in Boston, the house was never more than...
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Well, sorry, Basil.But the friend I reference above was then a young NYer, and a Holmes fan.His beef was simply that_the_play_was_bad.
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