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The International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes Is Coming

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The <b><a href="http://www.sherlockholmesexhibition.com/" target="_blank">International Exhibition of Sherlock Holmes</a></b> is coming to the <b><a href="https://www.omsi.edu/" target="_blank">Oregon Museum of Science and Industry</a></b> in just 125 days.<br />
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A collaborative effort between Conan Doyle Estate Ltd., Exhibits Development Group (EDG), Geoffrey M. Curley + Associates (GMCA), and OMSI, this unique and interactive experience showcases areas of forensic science that enabled Sherlock Holmes to solve crimes, as well as the historic underpinnings of author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s rich and vibrant stories.<br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="more"></a>In an effort to give visitors a sense of the world of Sherlock Holmes, how he used forensic science to help solve crimes, and the influence of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's life, the exhibition will feature the following displays:<br />
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<li><b>Dr. Conan Doyle’s Study</b> – Conan Doyle, a scientifically educated physician, was a curious and tireless investigator his entire life. Guests will discover his world first as a medical student at Edinburgh University, then as an apprentice at Royal Surgeons’ Hall there, and finally as a creator of literary genius while practicing medicine in Southsea, Portsmouth, in the 1880s, and London in the early 1890s. On display will be an original manuscript, letters, and illustrations through which guests will gain perspective on the experiences that influenced Conan Doyle in creating Sherlock Holmes.</li>
<li><b>Science and History</b> – Sherlock Holmes solved mysteries using observation and solid scientific experimentation, something real-world detectives (police or private) had not yet embraced. Guests will participate in experiments of their own by exploring the developments in science and technology in the 1890s, developments still very relevant today. Supported by forensics expert and crime historian E. J. Wagner, author of <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/2TTHtt0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Science of Sherlock Holmes</a></b></i>, the exhibition digs into real forensic studies in order to demonstrate the link between the Sherlock Holmes stories’ detective science and the world of today.</li>
<li><b>Sherlock Holmes in Baker Street</b> – Guests will visit Sherlock Holmes’ and Dr. Watson’s sitting-room at 221B Baker Street, London, where their investigations began and concluded – a room looming large in popular imagination around the globe ever since the first Sherlock Holmes tale A Study in Scarlet in 1887. Of it, poet Vincent Starrett said: “Here dwell together still two men of note / Who never lived and so can never die . . .Here, though the world explode, these two survive / And it is always eighteen ninety-five.” </li>
<li><b>Become a Detective </b>– Guests will replace the museum map with a book full of clues while hot on a trail to solve a remarkable murder. Using their own powers of observation, guests can crack a new Sherlock Holmes mystery written exclusively for this exhibition by <b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2007/11/episode-13-arthur-conan-doyle-life-in.html" target="_blank">Daniel Stashower</a></b>, the acclaimed historian, award-winning Conan Doyle biographer (author of <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/2Gl0koM" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle</a></i></b> and co-editor of <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/30P6SFl" target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters</a></i></b>), and author of new Sherlock Holmes stories as well.</li>
<li><b>Culture of Sherlock</b> – Pop culture enthusiasts will enjoy the exhibition’s final gallery, housing a robust collection of all things “Sherlockian,” ranging from vintage Sherlock Holmes-themed card games, comics, and magazines, to radio broadcasts, movie clips, and television shows. Featured are costumes worn by Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law in Warner Bros.’ current Sherlock Holmes movies set in the Victorian era, alongside costumes and props from the CBS hit television show Elementary, setting Sherlock Holmes in present day. The exhibition will offer museum guests the most comprehensive display anywhere of Sherlock Holmes in the popular imagination over the 126 years since his creation. The conclusion of the exhibition celebrates today’s real forensic scientists and their exceptional work.</li>
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The Exhibition will open on October 11, 2013 at the OSMI, before embarking on a ten city tour throughout North America and then internationally. More information available at <a href="http://www.sherlockholmesexhibition.com/">www.sherlockholmesexhibition.com</a>.<br /><br /><br /><h3>
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May Birthdays of Three Legendary Actors Associated with Sherlock Holmes

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The last two days mark birthdays of three legendary actors associated with Sherlock Holmes. Each is known beyond his Sherlock Holmes work, but together their collective Sherlockian CVs are impressive.<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Cushing" target="_blank">Peter Cushing</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Price" target="_blank">Vincent Price</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Lee" target="_blank">Christopher Lee</a> are icons of the screen spanning the majority of the 20th century and into the 21st. They all had a significant impact on the noir, horror and sci-fi realms and had cheekbones that could cut glass.<br />
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So let's take a look at these three gentlemen on the anniversaries of their birth and on how they touched the world particularly through their Sherlock Holmes-related roles.<br />
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We'll start with Sir Christopher Lee, as his association with the great detective is the most impressive. On May 27, 2013 Christopher Lee turned 91. He appeared in the 1959 Hammer version of <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3z2o4ui" target="_blank">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></i></b> as Sir Henry Baskerville, alongside Peter Cushing's Sherlock Holmes.  Then, in 1962, Lee took a turn as Sherlock Holmes himself in the 1962 film <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3MMnsNo" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace</a></i></b>.<br />
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Then eight years later, Lee was to do what no other actor had done until then or has done since: he went from playing Sherlock Holmes to playing Mycroft Holmes. He lost the deerstalker (and his toupee) and joined Robert Stephens in Billy Wilder's <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3yXaUi3" target="_blank">The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes</a></b></i> in 1970, in a fantastical plot that involved Loch Ness, a submarine and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRuUnXjMxZ0" target="_blank">a visit from Queen Victoria</a> herself.<br />
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Then, in the early 1990s, Lee teamed up with Patrick Macnee as his Watson and made two films: <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3NDSLtI" target="_blank"><b>Incident at Victoria Falls</b></a></i> and <i><b><a href="https://amzn.to/3wSTwIC" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady</a></b></i> that took a look at Holmes in his retirement years.<br />
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Finally, Lee took on the job of host in <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/39TkUP0" target="_blank">The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes</a></i></b>, in which he took us through the legion of actors who have portrayed the master detective throughout the years on stage, television and film. It's a fun overview, and while incomplete by today's standards, as we've had two decades of Holmeses since then, it helps to ground viewers in some of the popular manifestations of Sherlock Holmes throughout the years. We highly recommend picking up a copy of the DVD (available in the above link).<br />
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May 26, 2013 marks the centenary of Peter Cushing's birth. Born in 1913, Cushing graced the large and small screen as Sherlock Holmes over the course of a number of decades. As we mentioned above, Cushing had a turn in <i>The Hound of the Baskervilles</i> (1959), with Andre Morrell as his Watson. Then, it was to return to him in the mid-1960s when Douglas Wilmer gave up the role on <b><a href="https://amzn.to/38KFuRC" target="_blank">the BBC television series for 16 episodes</a></b>.<br />
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The series was well received and is critically acclaimed now despite the hectic production schedules that put the actor on timetables of less than two weeks for each episode. The final episode was "The Blue Carbuncle," and by that time, viewers could see the close and amiable relationship Cushing had developed with his Watson, Nigel Stock. We commented on the very same thing during <b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2012/12/episode-49-ill-have-blue-christmas.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Episode 49 of I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere</a></b>.<br />
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Cushing returned to the screen in the 1984 film <i>Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death</i> looking quite elderly, with an equally aged John Mills by his side. But his relationship with Holmes was not merely through his career; Cushing was genuinely interested in the Canon. In fact, he was an active member of the Sherlock Holmes society <b>The Northern Musgraves</b>, and the group even adopted his freehand sketch of Holmes as their official logo (second image below). Those interested in the more private, tender and humorous side of the actor would do well to pick up a copy of the biography <b><a href="https://amzn.to/3aqv363" target="_blank"><i>Peter Cushing: A Life in Film</i></a></b> as well.<br />
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Our final entrant in this triumvirate of Sherlockian birthdays is none other than Vincent Price, who would have been 102 years old on May 27, 2013. Price made his debut in the horror genre in the 1939 film <i>Tower of London</i> with Boris Karloff, and was seemingly typecast from then on. His career spanned over five decades, and Price had two very significant associations with Sherlock Holmes along the way.<br />
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One was his portrayal of the evil Moriarty-inspired Professor Ratigan in <b><i><a href="https://amzn.to/3PV9MBQ" target="_blank">The Great Mouse Detective</a></i></b> (1986). Price had always wanted to portray the voice of a Disney character, and this film allowed him to do just that. His portrayal is classic Vincent Price, moving from charming dark humor to pure evil with a seeming blink of an eye.<br />
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Also during that time (from 1981-1989, to be exact), Vincent Price was the host for the PBS production of <b><i>Mystery!</i></b> which featured such detectives as Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Albert Campion, Adam Dalgliesh, Father Brown, Inspector Morse, Lord Peter Wimsey, Horace Rumpole and of course, Sherlock Holmes. <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2014/05/one-of-best-features-of-jeremy-brett.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Price's introductions for the Granada series</a> starring Jeremy Brett were as rich in setting as the episodes themselves. Friends of ours in the Baker Street Irregulars and The Speckled Band of Boston contributed to the writing of these, as well as to the set decoration.<br />
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Sadly, these introductions are not part of the DVD collections of the Granada series that one may purchase,  but some are still available on YouTube today. Here is <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9g-AluIe5g&list=PLO6tqafE6tLQB_u1dFBU3s1eq3NRY9kp8">a playlist that contains many of them</a></b>.<br />
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<i>Image credit: top image is a publicity shot from <a href="http://cinefantastiqueonline.com/2010/05/birthday-greetings-to-vincent-price-and-christopher-lee/" target="_blank">The House of Long Shadows</a>, 1983.</i><br />
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Episode 52: Sherlockian Mythbusters

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When a figure like Sherlock Holmes has been around for over a century, there are bound to be misconceptions that creep into public thinking. We blame this not on carelessness or laziness but rather on the overwhelming popularity of the great detective.<br />
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The image of Holmes clad in deerstalker and Inverness cape, clenching a Meerschaum pipe in his teeth is the universal, if cliched, image of a detective. But was it true?<br />
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We were recently reminded of a number of classic myths about Sherlock Holmes, thanks to <a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/armbands.html">a contest being sponsored by <b><i>The Baker Street Journal</i></b></a> (also a sponsor of our program): it has long been rumored that men wore black armbands throughout the city of London after reading "The Final Problem" in the <i>Strand Magazine</i>. And only anecdotal evidence has been referenced whenever this supposed fact is brought up. The BSJ is offering a free year's subscription to anyone who can definitively prove that such mourning attire was worn in response to the death of Sherlock Holmes.<br />
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That got us to thinking: what other Sherlockian myths are there? And are we guilty of propagating any of them ourselves? Join us for a quick game show-style question and answer session on the topic, as well as a reading of your comments from our last show and some recent news from the world of Sherlock Holmes.<br />
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<b>The Editor's Gas-Lamp:</b> Rather than the traditional gas-lamp, which began under Edgar Smith's editorship of the Baker Street Journal, we thought we would mark May 5 as the 123rd anniversary of Christopher Morley's birth by reading two of his poems: the very short "The Secret" and the quite remarkable "Toulemonde."<br />
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<li><b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/bsihistoryseries.html">BSI Archival History Series available for sale</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/armbands.html">The <i>Baker Street Journal</i> contest</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/05/remind-me-of-edgar-stud_2.html">Sherlock Holmes-related 2013 Edgar Award winners and nominees</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2013/05/monsieur-oscar-meunier-of-grenoble-empt.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">"Stand with me here upon the terrace" for Irving Kamil</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/itemsforsale/dealtable.html">The Deal Table from the BSJ</a></b></li>
<li><b><a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Christopher-Morley-Literary-Estate/287552511355101?ref=br_tf">The Christopher Morley Literary Estate on Facebook</a></b></li>
<li>Sherlockian Mythbusters: "<b><a href="http://youtu.be/m0etbZuM2yw">Thor Bridge</a></b>" and "<b><a href="http://youtu.be/UTBOH86H7as">The Engineer's Thumb</a></b>"</li>
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Episode 52: Sherlockian Mythbusters

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Remembering Irving Kamil, BSI

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Occasionally we remember members of the BSI who have gone to the other side of the Reichenbach. This one was a particularly difficult one for us.<br />
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Irving Kamil, BSI ("Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble") died on April 26, 2013 at the age of 86. He was a chemistry teacher, assistant principal and principal in the New York City school system for 41 years, retiring in 1990. Irv graduated from Central Methodist College and received a Master's Degree from Columbia University Teachers College.<br />
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Irv was a WWII U.S. Navy veteran, a former member and president of the Cliffside Park Board of Education and president of Temple Israel in Cliffside Park. He wrote over 40 articles that were published in The New York Times and other papers, taught a mystery course at The New School, was a member of The Wolfe Pack, and was an avid three-times-a-week bridge player.<br />
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In 1976 Irv, Norm Schatell, and Harlan Umansky founded Mrs. Hudson's Cliffdwellers's of Cliffside Park, NJ after they attended an off-Broadway Sherlock Holmes play. They went to Molly Malone's Pub and as Irv tells the story, they came up with a song for the group, sang it with all their hearts -- and nobody paid the slightest bit of attention to them.<br />
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For many years at the BSI Dinner, Irv had the honor of Standing on the Terrace for members of the BSI who had crossed over the Reichenbach. It was his eloquent and sensitive delivery honoring the lives of the members that prompted us to take up a similar effort on this site. He also wrote essays and poems that were published in <i><a href="http://ihose.co/BSJ" target="_blank">The Baker Street Journal </a></i>and other Sherlockian publications, and ran the Cliffdwellers for 21 years.<br />
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Irv and his wife of over 60 years, Selma, traveled extensively and during their travels created what he called "non-meeting" Sherlockian societies in places such as the Great Wall of China, on the Amazon, in Sicily, Thailand, New Zealand, Vietnam, Jordan, Antarctica, and the Galapagos, among others.<br />
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Irving Kamil was invested into The Baker Street Irregulars in 1981 as "Monsieur Oscar Meunier, of Grenoble."<br />
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<a href="https://www.questia.com/newspaper/1P2-36216041/irving-kamil-86-sherlock-holmes-society-founder" target="_blank">Another remembrance of his life</a> and <a href="https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/northjersey/obituary.aspx?n=irving-kamil&pid=164475230&fhid=12213" target="_blank">his obituary</a> can be read here.<br />
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<i>Image credit: (c) 2013 Amy Newman /<a href="http://northjersey.com/"> northjersey.com</a></i><br />
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