I Hear of Sherlock Everywhere

Remembering Gene Wilder

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Gene Wilder has passed away at the age of 83, <a href="http://variety.com/2016/film/news/gene-wilder-dead-dies-willie-wonka-young-frankenstein-1201846745/" target="_blank">according to Variety</a>.</div>
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He was a legendary comedic actor, and his roles took him from the ridiculous (Leo Bloom in Mel Brooks' film <i>The Producers</i>) to the sublime (the lead in <i>Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory</i>). His association with Mr. Brooks spanned such other comedies as <i>Blazing Saddles</i> and <i>Young Frankenstein</i>, which have both reached legendary status.</div>
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The success of those films led Wilder to write and direct his own, including the less-than-acclaimed <i><a href="https://amzn.to/3Awaa0D" target="_blank">The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother</a> </i>in 1975. In this spoof, he starred as Sigerson Holmes, the youngest of the three Holmes brothers, who was eternally jealous of Sherlock's success. Marty Feldman co-starred as Orville Sacker (an homage to Ormond Sacker, the original name Sir Arthur Conan Doyle planned to give Watson). They met under the following circumstances:</div>
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001204/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Orville</a>: Are you Mister S., for Sigerson, Holmes?<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Sigerson Holmes</a>: Perhaps.<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001204/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Orville</a>: Do you have a brother whose first name is Sherlock?<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Sigerson Holmes</a>: I do not.<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001204/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Orville</a>: You do have a brother?<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Sigerson Holmes</a>: I do.<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001204/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Orville</a>: Might I inquire as to his first name?<br />
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000698/?ref_=tt_trv_qu">Sigerson Holmes</a>: "Sheer luck."</blockquote>
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It's not the greatest of Sherlock Holmes films — not by a long shot — but it's one in the pantheon of hundreds of movies about the great detective. And it's the one through which Gene Wilder left his mark (and his passing knowledge of the Canon, incidentally).<br />
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The film also starred Madeline Kahn and Dom Deluise, with Leo McKern as Professor Moriarty. Nicholas Smith of <i>Are You Being Served?</i> fame appeared as the landlord, and <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/12/nicholas-smith-had-two-sherlock-holmes.html#.V8SVrpgrLb0" target="_blank">passed away last December</a>. </div><div><br /></div><div>And of course, Thorley Walters and Douglas Wilmer made cameo appearances as Dr. Watson and Sherlock Holmes. <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2016/03/remembering-douglas-wilmer-bsi.html#.V8SVrpgrLb0" target="_blank">We also remembered Wilmer</a> after he passed away earlier this year.</div>
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With Wilder's death, all of the principal actors in <i>Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother</i> have now left the stage.</div>
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R.I.P. Gene Wilder (1933-2016)<br />
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Remembering Gene Wilder

"in Mr. Wilder's absence" [PRIO] Gene Wilder has passed away at the age of 83, according to Variety . He was a lege...

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by Scott Monty

Jay Finley Christ — An Old Irregular

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Somebody asked me a question the other day about Jay Finley Christ, BSI ("The Final Problem"), a Sherlockian whose immense contributions to scholarship (and fun) are by no means forgotten more than 50 years after his death. The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia has <a href="https://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php?title=Jay_Finley_Christ" target="_blank">an extensive survey of his life and work</a>, including the observation that "He is mostly famous for having created <a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2015/02/canonical-abbreviations-no-short.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the system of abbreviations which shorten in 4 letters the titles of 60 Sherlock Holmes stories</a>." <br />
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He was also the author of much good-natured Sherlockian writing, including a number of poems, among them "<a href="http://www.ihearofsherlock.com/2009/08/in-vaults-thor_21.html#.V7fSxpgrLb0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Old Tin Box</a>" (about Holmes's unpublished cases), issued as a pamphlet in 1946, and "The Story I Like Best," published in the <i><a href="http://bakerstreetjournal.com/" target="_blank">Baker Street Journal</a></i> in 1947, with this quatrain that I have quoted in more than one context:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">  Good Sherlock took full many a crook</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">In Adventures beyond compare;</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">And the best of the lot is the crafty plot</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">Of the man with the flaming hair.</span></blockquote>
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There was also "The Song of Hiawatson" in 1956, a mashup of Sherlock Holmes with Longfellow's "Hiawatha," which perhaps was more widely known then than it is sixty years later.<br />
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Christ was a Chicagoan, recruited into the ranks of the Hounds of the Baskerville [sic] by Vincent Starrett himself. He was a professor of business administration at the University of Chicago for many years, and moved in the city's literary circles as well. Some of his works of Sherlockian scholarship, chronology and reflection appeared under his own name, some under the nom-de-plume of J. A. Finch.<br />
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The debt we owe him is not just for the four-letter abbreviations, but for his invention of Sherlockian reference works, specifically the <i>Irregular Guide to Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street</i>, published in 1947, for which the abbreviations were devised. Though a bit eccentric, like Sherlock Holmes's own good old index, the <i>Irregular Guide</i> is still one of the reference books to which I turn most often — when, for example, I want to find all the mentions of weather in the canonical tales, or all the references to boxers' ears. <br />
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Jay Finley Christ retired in 1950 and settled in Michigan City, Indiana, where he cranked up his Sherlockian production for the remaining 13 years of his life. He read and wrote in a little outbuilding — a man-cave, we would call it now — which his widow, Maud Christ, described later: "Jay built it all himself, even the fireplace, and put 221B over the door. Here he spent the happiest hours of his life."<br />
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I was just becoming a Sherlockian when he died, in December 1963, so I never communicated with him, but a little later I did have some correspondence with Maud Christ, who kindly sent me some souvenirs of the great man. Most interesting among them was a little tin, or at least steel, box containing several dozen 35-millimeter slides that he had made, presumably for some of the non-credit Sherlockian lectures. They were clumsy by today's graphic standards, photographed mostly in black and white from print material, and sandwiched in glass, but they included some classic images. They are now in the <a href="http://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/books-video-music/specialized-collections/literature-genre-doyle.jsp" target="_blank">Arthur Conan Doyle Collection at the Toronto Public Library</a>.<br />
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Later, I was able to acquire a real collectible: Christ's copies of the three-and-a-quarter volumes of the old series <i>Baker Street Journal</i>. He had had them bound in blue cloth, with his name ("J. F. Christ") stamped in gold on the spine, and I continue to refer to them regularly. <br />
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Unexpectedly, those volumes provide a window into the sad story of how the Baker Street Journal began bravely but later faltered, amid the financial woes of the publisher, Ben Abramson. It had been Christ's habit to note on each issue the date when it reached Michigan City, so that volume 1 number 1 is inked "Recd Feb 8, 1946". Volume 2, number 1, was slower to appear — "Posted 2/20 Recd 3/1/47" — and volume 3, number 1 did not show up until March 20 of 1948. After that, as the Journal's schedule slipped and eventually petered out, Christ made no more such notes.<br />
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Jay Finley Christ — An Old Irregular

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“Elementary, my dear Watson” — The Birth of a Quotation

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To anyone who has heard of Sherlock Holmes, “Elementary, my dear Watson” is always <i>the</i> quotation.<br />
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Sherlockians know that the phrase is not a Doylean original, but still we have placed it together with the deerstalker and the curved pipe on our sacred canonical mantelpiece. We definitely do feel an emotion akin to love for it. Conan Doyle used “elementary” a few times in the Sherlock Holmes stories, and “my dear Watson” many times. In “The Crooked Man” (1893) both of these components are included. But there are 52 words between them.<br />
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It is often stated that the line was first used in the American movie <i>The Return of Sherlock Holmes</i> from 1929. Sherlock Holmes was played by Clive Brook, and this was the first sound film about the detective. At the end of the movie Brook delivered the famous line.<br />
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Other sources—e.g., Christopher Redmond’s <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Quotations-from-Baker-Street/dp/1896032168/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471444433&sr=8-1&keywords=quotations+from+baker+street" target="_blank">Quotations from Baker Street</a></i> (2009)—point out a much earlier occurrence: <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Psmith-Journalist-Collectors-Wodehouse-P/dp/1590201051/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1471444454&sr=8-1&keywords=Psmith%2C+Journalist" target="_blank">Psmith, Journalist</a></i> by P. G. Wodehouse, published as a book in 1915. The story had run as a serial in <i>The Captain</i> from October 1909 to March 1910. And it was in the February issue that Psmith murmured, “Elementary, my dear Watson, elementary.” No earlier occurrences have until now been known. But they do exist.<br />
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Half a year before the first installment of Wodehouse’s serial, the astronomer and Harvard professor Edward C. Pickering claimed that there was a way of signalling to the planet Mars. It all depended on correct positioning of mirrors that should reflect the sunlight. “Elementary mathematics,” as Pickering expressed it himself. Or as that statement was commented in an American news item: “‘Elementary, my dear Watson,’ as Sherlock Holmes was wont to say. ‘Elementary.’” (<i>The Times Dispatch</i>, 24 August 1909)<br />
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Wodehouse did not coin the classic words. Nor did that Richmond, Virginia, newspaper. On the contrary the line seems to have been commonly known—the wording in the <i>Times Dispatch</i> indicates that—and during the following years it appeared in a number of magazines and newspapers:<br />
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<li><i>The Washington Herald</i>, 10 August 1910, from an article about a real-life detective: “Mr. Holmes always insisted that his methods were simplicity run riot. His most famous deductions invariably were characterized by himself as ‘elementary my dear Watson; elementary.’”</li>
<li><i>The New York Times</i>, 30 April 1911, from an article about the detective William J. Burns: “‘Elementary, my dear Watson,’ says Sherlock Holmes. And since it’s not elementary, but rather occult and esoteric, the reader is apt to feel annoyed and to think the expression pure ostentation on Sherlock’s part. However it isn’t. Detectives all talk that way. Doyle is realistic, after all.”</li>
<li><i>Kansas City Star</i>, 2 December 1911, from another article about Burns: “As Sherlock Holmes himself might put it, ‘Quite elementary, my dear Watson.’”</li>
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Always cited as a matter of course that this was Sherlock Holmes’s most famous line. And certainly with no knowledge that that was not so.<br />
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During the following years the line appeared in widely differing contexts in magazines like the British<i> Sketch</i> (1912), the American <i>Everybody’s Magazine</i> (1913), the American <i>Western Electric News</i> (1913) and <i>The Journal of the American Medical Association</i> (1914). Sometimes the line was used with a reference to Sherlock Holmes, but more and more it stood by itself, with no reference to the source at all. “Elementary, my dear Watson” had become a common phrase. The line could be used in connection with anything; it didn’t need to be about detectives.<br />
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In the <i>Louisville Courier-Journal</i> the following four-line funny story was published at the end of 1914:<br />
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“Does Wombat own or rent his house?”<br />
“Rents it.”<br />
“How do you know?”<br />
“I know all right. He scratches matches on the paint.”</blockquote>
This had obviously nothing to do with Sherlock Holmes. But the headline for the four lines was nevertheless “Elementary, Watson”—since the story was about sharp wit, and such was best represented by Holmes’s most famous line. (In this case in a shorter version, since ”my dear” were cut.) And over the years also in travesty versions. The word ”elementary” was sometimes changed to other words that sounded similar to get a comical effect. And on 2 February 1920 <i>The New-York Tribune</i> wrote in a political commentary: “That is elementary, my dear Senator.” The origin in the Holmes quotation is evident, and the reader is expected to understand it.<br />
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During the ’20s the use of the phrase widespread. Agatha Christie included it in the Tommy and Tuppence novel <i>The Secret Adversary</i>:<br />
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“Good morning,” said Tommy amicably. “You have not used Pear’s soap, I see.”<br />
Conrad growled threatingly.<br />
“No light repartee, have you, old bean? There, there, we can’t always have brains as well as beauty. What have we for lunch? Stew? How did I know? Elementary, my dear Watson—the smell of onions is unmistakable.”</blockquote>
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The line also worked in advertising. The picture shows an advert for suits, from <i>The New-York Tribune</i> 14 May 1921.<br />
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And it is in an ad that we can find the first published appearance of the line, even if it is in a slightly parodic form.<br />
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In the late fall of 1901 an advertisement for Charles Ford’s Bile Beans for Biliousness was published in many British newspapers (e.g., <i>Northampton Mercury</i> 15 November 1901). This alleged cure-all had been popular for more than ten years, and many thought it really worked. (Adverts for the medicine were often designed to look like editorial text—the only thing that revealed that it was an advert was the letters ADVT at the end of the text.) The ad had the headline “Sherlock Holmes’s Latest” and was written as a Sherlock Holmes parody. Here follows the beginning of the text:<br />
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One winter’s morning, a few years after my marriage, I was lying by my hearth, smoking a red herring, and nodding over the Encyclopedia Britannica, for my day’s work had been a hard one. Since first meeting Shylock Combs my practice as a doctor had, as a matter of course, rapidly declined. My presentation clock had chimed 4.47 a.m., and I was in the act of blowing out the gas when I heard the clang of my front door speaking tube. Thinking it must be the milkman I went into the hall, opened the door, and, to my astonishment, Shylock Combs stood upon my step. “Ah, Potson,” he said; “I hoped I should not be too early to catch you. I perceive the wind has changed round to N.N.E. by S.W. again.” I was astounded, as he had not had time to observe the thermometer in my bedroom. He noticed my amazement and smiled that wonderful smile of his. “Elementary, my dear Potson,” he said; “I observed the left-hand side of your moustache inclined about 47 5/8 degrees towards the west, and coming as I did from Butcher-street I at once deduced from which quarter the wind was blowing.”</blockquote>
Here we find, in 1901, the quotation “Elementary, my dear Potson,” an obvious parody on the classic line. But no smoke without fire, and no parody without something to parody. From where then did the quotation come? We can but speculate about this, since we don’t have any written evidence. I have neither any examples of appearances of the line between 1901 and 1909. It is however evident that the quotation spread in both Great Britain and the U.S., and on a wide front in widely differing contexts. <br />
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The origin of the quotation must be something that united the U.S. and Great Britain. And there was only one Holmes-related success that ranged over both continents. It wasn’t a book; it was nothing that had been written in the newspapers. It was William Gillette’s 1899 play <i>Sherlock Holmes</i>. It had been playing London in 1901. And that makes it no mystery that a quotation from the popular play was used in a British advertisement the same year—the play had by then been seen by a great many Englishmen.<br />
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With the continued concurrent performances and tours of the play in the U.S. and in Europe during the first decades of the 20th century, it influenced people’s idea of Sherlock Holmes. To many theatergoers the master detective in the play became more real than the canonical Holmes. The deerstalker and curved pipe came to be connected with Holmes largely thanks to the play. Professor Moriarty had previously only figured in one single short story, but here he was established as the Napoleon of crime. And it is not unlikely that the famous quotation was born there.<br />
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In the script Holmes once says “elementary, my dear fellow.” But since he also says “my dear Watson” a number of times, it might very well have happened that “elementary, my dear fellow” turned into “elementary, my dear Watson” after Gillette—and the other actors who played Holmes—had performed the play for some years, even though they never changed the written script.<br />
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And even if the line was never actually uttered in the play, the audiences might very well have collectively mixed together those two phrases into one and thought that they had heard “elementary, my dear Watson.” In all probability it
was through the spoken line that the phrase was coined, and it happened thanks
to William Gillette. Conan Doyle had created Sherlock Holmes as a character,
but there is no doubt that it was Gillette’s success that turned the master
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<b><i>Author's note:</i></b> I wrote this some time ago, wanting to elaborate on some facts I mention in my book <i>From Holmes to Sherlock</i> (published in Swedish in 2013), and I thought it fitting to post my findings in connection with the forthcoming English edition in 2017. However, since <a href="http://quoteinvestigator.com/2016/07/14/watson/" target="_blank">Quote Investigator</a> posted a similar article a few weeks ago – based on pretty much the same sources – I see no reason to wait any longer with sharing these observations.<br />
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<b><i>Editor's note:</i></b> In addition to the English edition of <i>From Holmes to Sherlock</i>, Mattias is also the co-editor (with Matt Laffey) of <i><a href="http://wessexpress.com/html/newspaper.html" target="_blank">Sherlock Holmes and Conan Doyle in the Newspapers</a></i>, a multi-volume project under the banner of Wessex Press.<br />
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“Elementary, my dear Watson” — The Birth of a Quotation

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by Mattias Boström

Episode 102: Summer at Baker Street

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How often do you think of hot summer weather when you read the Sherlock Holmes stories? According to our calculations, it should be about 25%. But it doesn't seem that way, does it? It turns out that 16 of of the 60 stories took place in the summer months.<br />
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 For those of you keeping track at home, they are (according to William S. Baring-Gould):<br />
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<li>"The Boscombe Valley Mystery" - June 1889</li>
<li>"The Man with the Twisted Lip" - June 1889</li>
<li>"The Engineer's Thumb" - Summer 1889, alternatively August or July</li>
<li>"The Stockbroker's Clerk" - June</li>
<li>"The Crooked Man" - Summer - August, 1888/9</li>
<li>"The Greek Interpreter" - Summer</li>
<li>"The Norwood Builder" - August 1894/5</li>
<li>"The Dancing Men" - July 1898</li>
<li>"Black Peter" - July 1895</li>
<li>"The Six Napoleons" - July/August 1900</li>
<li>"The Cardboard Box" - August late '80s</li>
<li>"His Last Bow" - August 1914</li>
<li>"The Mazarin Stone" - Summer 1903</li>
<li>"The Three Garridebs" - June 1902</li>
<li>"The Lion's Mane" - July 1907</li>
<li>"The Retired Colourman" - Summer 1898</li>
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1:32 Introduction and welcome<br />
2:57 Sherlock Holmes's childhood and summers<br />
7:18 Sponsor - Wessex Press, "a blended, splendid catalog"<br />
8:32 A special report from the Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes conference in Minnesota<br />
20:02 Summertime in the Canon<br />
37:16 Sherlock Holmes Brand spot<br />
38:16 A reflection on <a href="http://ihose.co/ihose100" target="_blank">Episode 100</a><br />
40:38 Mental Exaltation<br />
49:49 Gas Lamp<br />
55:47 Sponsor - <i>The Baker Street Journal</i><br />
57:57 Closing thoughts</div>
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