Ineffable Twaddle “It is my business to know what other people don’t know.” —The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle
The monthly publication of The Sound of the Baskervilles A Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars since March 31, 1980 Serving the Greater Puget Sound Region of Western Washington, USA
Volume 38 Issue 4 “Happy Anniversary to Us,…”! April, 2019 Inside this issue: Yes, we SOBs are turning Driving Directions to Carrol’s Home: 39‐years‐old on March 31, From I-5 north- or southbound, exit in Federal Way 39th Anniversary Tea is 1 2019! So join us as we celebrate at our at S.W. 320th Street and head west. After passing Saturday, April 6! Anniversary Tea on Saturday, April 6 at through intersections at 21st Ave. S.W. and at 26th Ave. rd Many Honored at 2019 1 1:00 p.m. at Carroll Clemens’ beau ful S.W., turn left on S.W. 323 Street. Then take the first left on 33rd Avenue S.W. Clemens’ home will be on Masters’ Celebra on home in Federal Way. Bring a friend… your right at 32148—33rd Avenue S.W. If you need everyone is Renewal Dues are 1 further, call her at (253) 838-1790. Now Due! welcome! It’s a potluck, share and any unusual serving pieces or “How much is in the 2 so please bring utensils your food might require! Carroll writer’s words,…” finger‐food— generously provides the non‐alcoholic bev‐ Here’s Charlie Cook’s 2 sweets or erages! Look for food, entertainment, Quiz on TWIS savories—to fun and lots of great stuff in our free raffle! Coming to Portland 2 in October!! Honorees, Recognitions, Winners at 2019 Masters’ Celebration Things to See, 3 T F : Buy, Do & Know Geoff Jeffery & Cara Cross won our “Footprints of a Gigan c Hound” Award! Contribu ng to our Pubs Vivika Sundqvist and Sunny Even won the Sherlockian Charm Bracelet drawing!! Choosing Your And, a dozen SOBs were recognized for earning their 2‐year membership cer ficates Canonical Name and member ID numbers!!! 4 Our 2019 Beaten’s is Many persons, places and things were honored as well with toasts and kind words through‐ Now Available out the event, many other winners went home with great stuff from our free drawing, and Minnesota Triennial 5 our 2019 issue of Beaten’s Christmas Annual was delivered—to good reviews! Conference is August 8 In between it all was lots of food and drink, photos and smiles, and fun!! to 11 in Minneapolis!! Continued on Page 4 Gloger Comments 6 on STOC Renewal Dues are Now Due Member News & Notes 8 Are your dues paid for the Melinda Michaelson New Members! 8 April 2019 to March 2020 P. O. Box 7633 fiscal year?? Tacoma, WA 98417
If not, now’s the time to act! Newer Members: If you joined after July 1, Due to Easter, April Meeting Renew online using 2018, chances are you paid a lower, prorated is on Sunday, April 14 PayPal at: http:// rate to join through March 31, 2019, so it’s one week early! soundofthebaskervilles.com/news/join/ time for you to renew as well! Rates are: Or, send your check—payable to $20 for individuals, $30 for families (U.S. funds only). “The Sound of the Baskervilles” Renewal deadline —to our Treasurer: is March 31! Thank you all! Page 2 Ineffable Twaddle
The Seattle “How much is in the writer’s words,…” Public Library on Queen Anne The Regular Monthly Mee ng of The Sound of the Baskervilles will begin at 1:30 Hill is at p.m. on Sunday, April 14, 2019—one week early, on Palm Sunday—at the Sea le 400 West Public Library (Queen Anne Branch), located at 400 West Garfield, Sea le (driving Garfield directions at left). If you have a favorite snack, please bring it along to share! Library opens at 1:00, closes As Program Chair Sunny Even suggests: Victorian literature liked to play with the at 5:00. Come early, and catch ideas of iden ty, disguises and the masks we wear for society—perhaps because up with your fellow SOBs! they were so rigidly enforced. No right‐thinking Victorian would connect the up‐ Getting there: From north- or southbound I-5, standing Mr. Neville St. Clair with the grotesque beggar Hugh Boone. Doyle uses this exit at Mercer Street and head status‐conscious bias to propel the mystery behind “The Man with the Twisted Lip”. west. Turn right on Queen In spite of the clues, the reader, along with Holmes & Watson, are playing catch‐up Anne Avenue and head up the to the end. hill. At the 3-way stop sign at the top, turn left onto West Is it my imagina on that there’s an undercurrent of disapproval over St. Clair’s Galer Street. At 4th Avenue, chosen “profession?” Does Doyle present St. Clair’s decep on in the same forgiving turn right. The library is one (1) light as he does Holmes’: when the detec ve gleefully assumes disguises to play oth‐ block north on the northwest ers for the fool? Is St. Clair a performer or is he a cheat? It’s hard to say—for me, corner, at the cross with Garfield Street. this is one of the more intriguing aspects of reading popular literature 130 years a er the fact. How much is in the writer’s words, and how much is in how we re‐ ceive them? Here’s Charlie Cook’s Quiz on “The Man with the Twisted Lip” 1. Name the woman who burst into Dr. And Mrs. Wat‐ opium den. son’s domicile. 8. How did the cripple earn his 2. Why did she seek their help? income? 3. Where did Watson find the solu on to the woman’s 9. Who ran the opium den? problem? 10. What was in the pockets of a coat 4. What else did Watson discover when helping the found on the mud bank of the river? woman? 11. Who murdered the missing gentle‐ 5. Holmes told Watson a story about what gentleman? man? 6. What was the gentleman’s wife stunned to see? 12. Why did the cripple do what he did? 7. Name the old cripple who lodged in a room above an Answers may be found on Page 5
A Weekend of Scholarship and Camaraderie Coming this year to the Pacific Northwest Friday, October 11, 2019, 6:00 p.m. to Sunday, October 13, 2019, 1:00 p.m. University Place Hotel & Conference Center, 310 S.W. Lincoln Street, Portland, OR Call: 1.866.845.4647
Start planning your a endance now, and make yourself known to other SOB Members!! We already have requests for roommates, and carpooling and volunteering should be considered! Head to: h ps://www.facebook.com/events/357827828136779/ where you’ll see an outline of this weekend event’s schedule, and links to the conference venue and hotel. When booking your rooms, the code for special room rates is: GROUP The Le Coast Sherlockian Symposium will be a fun and educa onal weekend of talks, socializing and friend‐ ship in Portland, Oregon…“molded in the image of other Sherlockian events around the United States”. With proud support of THE SOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES and its Members!
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Things to See, Buy, Do & Know Calling all Writers, Puzzlers, Poets, Illustrators, Our own Sunny Even got mention in Peter Blau’s cur- Cooks, Reviewers and rent newsletter (Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press) wherein he expanded on SUNNY’S ESSAY (“A STREAM OF CONSCIOUS- Jokesters! NESS...”) IN OUR FEBRUARY 2019 ISSUE (Vol. 38, Issue 2, Page 1) Serious or silly, it’s all good! with this: “Gregory Dowling’s essay on ‘G. K. Chesterton’s Would you like to see your essay, story, review, pastiche, cartoon Father Brown Stories: The Debt to Sherlock Holmes’, is or research work published? available as a free download at www.academia.edu, a website To contribute to our monthly newsle er, Ineffable that offers free access to more than 22 million research Twaddle, you’re encouraged to limit your wri ngs papers—including 300 with “Sherlock Holmes” in the title. to 350 words. Submissions are taken throughout SOB Cara Cross: I have a large selection of Sherlock the year. Holmes items for purchase at MY SPACE IN THE PACIFIC RUN To contribute to our Beaten’s Christmas Annual ANTIQUE MALL IN TACOMA UNTIL JULY 1, 2019. Included in the (more than 350 words), there’s much wider la tude. Submissions are taken in the 4th quarter of the year, display are games, puzzles, photos, posters, statues, pins, with a December 31 deadline. watches, teddy bears, dolls, and more. New items will be Please send any queries and submissions to added periodically. Don’t forget to bring your coupon to Editor Terri at: receive a 15% discount on any item above $5 in my space nd terri@soundo hebaskervilles.com #40 (coupon is a 2 attachment for those receiving IT by Surely you’ve got something to say about Holmes, Wat- email; snail-mailers will receive a hard copy of the coupon!). son, Doyle, the Canon or Victorian-era England...about books, movies, TV shows or audio materials! Share it! From President Fran Martin of The Stormy Petrels of B.C.: Here is the link to the LATEST PETREL FLYER: http://bit.ly/Petrels_2018_4. For our Newer Members Received from both VP Kashena and Cameron Brandon: Our springtime renewal period is always a good time The THIRD ROBERT DOWNEY JR. to think about your Canonical name!! AND JUDE LAW SHERLOCK HOLMES Here are our Club’s rules: MOVIE has now been delayed Your Canonical Name (alter-ego) may be any person, until Christmas 2021 from place or thing from Sherlockiana with which you’d like to Christmas 2020. Read more at: be identified! No one in the Club, however, may “be” www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat- Holmes, Watson, Moriarty or Irene Adler—ever! If the alter-ego you want is currently held by another active vision/sherlock-holmes-3-pushed- Member, you may not select that one! back-christmas-2021-1192230 If you have chosen an alter-ego but don’t know if your SOB PFL Davdid sent this eblast in late February: The choice of a person, place or thing that is already taken by 2019 RAZZIE AWARDS have been announced and “Holmes & one of our active Members, please phone Watson” took home four of them—Worst Picture, Worst or email Editor Terri to find out in advance Director (Ethan Cohen), Worst Supporting Actor (John C. if your choice is already taken. Some of Reilly) and Worst Remake, Rip-off or Sequel. Two other our more interesting alter-ego selections: “The Black Formosa Corruption” (DYIN), categories show that not only was that movie in the run- “Victor Trevor's bull terrier” (GLOR), ning for more but so was Jonny Depp: Worst Actor, a “Café Noir” (MUSG), tie—Johnny Depp (“Sherlock Gnomes”) and Will Ferrell “Sigurson” (EMPT), “Bag of Tigers” (EMPT), and “The (“Holmes & Watson”); and Worst Screen Couple—Johnny Busy Bee” (CREE). Feel free to be creative! Depp “and his fast-fading film career” (in “Sherlock Gnomes”) and Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly (“trashing two of literature’s most beloved characters” in “Holmes & P R N ! Watson”). March is our annual Dues Renewal Members couldn’t help but respond: month! KC, MO SOB PAUL NAHER: Thank you, at least we can’t say This means dues are due by March 31!! we haven’t been warned! Renew using PayPal (on the “Join” SEATTLE SOB ANN MILAM: Tell me you didn’t watch it! Lots page at our website), or use the Application that accompanies this issue of Ineffable Twaddle!! of promo but the initial reviews...oh, my! CONTINUED on Page 6 www.soundofthebaskervilles.com Page 4 Ineffable Twaddle
...2019 Masters’ Celebration Continued from Page 1 m Earning their 2-year membership* certificates and mem- ber ID numbers at this year’s banquet were (from longest- m An excerpt of the intro of our 2019 Footprints winners, term to newest): Geoff Jeffery & Cara Cross: This Dan Polvere, BSI; Alexander Snow; recognition—our Footprints of a Diane Johnson; Francis Bond; Gigantic Hound Award—is LONG, Gary Thaden; Sunny Even; LONG overdue!! … Remarkably Chris “Bear” Berwald; Nancy Holder & Mark Mandell; the SOBs who are being recog- Phillip Bergem, BSI; and Elinor Gray nized today have been continuous Melanie Briganti; members for the last 21 years— * “2-year Members” are those recognized at the first Masters’ having joined in January 1998. Celebration following their completion of two full renewal cycles One member of this family was a Continued on Page 5 long-time fan of Sherlock Holmes before joining our Club. Having Our 2019 Beaten’s is Now Available amassed quite a collection of books, films, statuary, bears, mu- We’ve got sic and other ephemera, this member has on a couple of occa- more than sions displayed portions of his impressive collection in the Hob- BEATEN’S 30 different SOBs by Hall at the Washington State Fair! Another member of this CHRISTMAS ANNUAL family grew into quite the Canonical expert over these past 21 contributing years. This one has contributed articles and photo art to more than 25 different es- Beaten’s and has shown a bent for acting, as demonstrated at THE SOUND T S says, poems, the last couple of International Sherlockian Summits. Both OF THE quizzes, puz- these members have donated time to this Club by hosting vari- BASKERVILLES zles, reviews, ous events and Masters’ Celebrations like this one, by being a OUR 36thth YEAR OF illustrations and very active part of any South Sound Meeting we have, and have PUBLISHING MEM- interesting fac- BERS’’ SSHERLOCKIAN,, been most generous in their donation of Sherlockian stuff, so QUIZZES,, PPASTICHES,, toids and side- COOKERY,, RRESEARCH that our younger and newer members can begin amassing their & MORE bars! That’s our own collections. On a personal note—since this is almost our THE SOUND BY APPOINTMENT OF THE OF HER MAJESTY, 2019 issue of only opportunity to tell you personal things about other members BASKERVILLES QUEEN VICTORIA Beaten’s (at —both these SOBs spent long careers employed by Pierce Published at University Place, WA, USA ¨ Price: $10.00 U.S. ¨ 2019 left) and it’s hot County, are super talented and avid gardeners, have three off the press “kids” and 6 grandkids! He’s a freak about anything Christmas, and was delivered at our Annual Masters’ Celebration on they’re both crazy about jazz, and she added “shopkeeper” to March 2! her resume last year. In case you haven’t guessed who It’s sixty pages of stories, research, and scholarship— we’re talking about, he’s the man with “two first names”—no, not amongst a bunch of fun and silliness! Harry James—but Geoff Jeffery & Cara Cross—the parents of For long-term Members, you know your first copy of our first non-human member!! You see, we have Cara to Beaten’s is free every year; additional copies are availa- thank for today’s lovely venue, as well as several very success- ble for $5 per copy. For newer Members: In the first year of your member- ful such banquets at the best Pierce County Parks’ facility, and ship, copies of Beaten’s are available for $5 per copy. Geoff to thank for the many, many donations he’s made over the Thereafter, while your membership is in good-standing (by years of great stuff for you to choose from in our free, free, free continuous payment of your annual dues), you’ll receive raffles!! And, they were the generous benefactors of the Sher- the Annual at no additional cost—over the annual dues lockian-themed charm bracelets that we’re raffling off today!! rate you pay ($20 for individuals; $30 for families). Please give a rousing round of applause to our 2019 winners of We think you’ll like this issue of “The Sound of the The Footprints of a Gigantic Hound Award—Geoff Jeffery & Baskervilles’ Beaten’s Christmas Annual” and will get Cara Cross!! (Photo above by SOB Dawn Kravagna) many hours of reading enjoyment! Email me to obtain additional copies at: terri@soundof m While Vivika and Sunny won the Sherlockian charm brace- thebaskervilles.com lets, the Club benefited greatly by the donation of $150—with Kudos and thanks to all our talented contributors!! 12 Members donating $5 per chance for 30 tickets!! — Editor Terri Volume 38, April 2019, Issue 4 Page 5
Sterndale goes back to Africa, ...2019 Masters’ Celebration and Holmes and Watson depart from beautiful Cornwall coast. Continued from Page 4 Margaret Nelson: A toast to a 20th century phenomenon— m Interspersed through our meal Members Prior to each moon mission, our astronauts would review offered up celebratory toasts: moon topography near their intended landing sites. One PFL David’s offerings included: of the moon’s craters, about a kilometer from the 1972 Watson’s faithful orderly Murray—“...Without Apollo 17 landing site, was chosen to be named “Sher- whom!”; lock” after Sherlock Holmes by astronaut and geologist The literary agent, Sir Arthur, of whom his Jack Schmitt. Schmitt wrote, “Sherlock Holmes, whose official website says that one of the examples of “his impish adventures were preserved for us by Dr. Watson, was not sense of humor was when he would respond to autograph re- only the world's most famous and most brilliant detective, quests by signing ‘Dr. John Watson’”; but was also one of the leading geological thinkers… Continued on Page 7 Dr. John H. Watson—“that fixed point in a changing age”; And, of course, Sherlock Holmes—the other half of our dy- “Dark Places, Wicked Companions, namic duo—and all our SOB Members, near and far!! and Strange Experiences” Here’s a sample of David’s words for the Queen herself— She held many titles during her lifetime. For her first On August 8 through 11, 2019, The Norwe- eighteen years she was known as “Her Royal Highness gian Explorers of Minnesota, the Friends of Princess Victoria of Kent”, even though her real first the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the Uni- name was “Alexandrina”. (The “Alexandrinan Era” just versity of Minnesota, and the University of Minnesota Li- doesn’t have the same ring.) From May 1876 to 1901 she braries will hold a conference to surprise and entertain was also “Her Imperial Majesty The Empress of India” attendees with the many dark places, wicked compan- or “Victoria Regina Et Imperatrix (Victoria, Queen and ions and strange experiences that Mr. Holmes and oth- Empress)”. So, in “The Musgrave Ritual”, Holmes could er characters have encountered. F The conference will have actually put “VRI” in bullet pocks on the wall of be held at The Graduate Hotel on the U. of M. campus 221B. In addition to these titles, as the male-line grand- with an accompanying exhibit at the Elmer L. Andersen daughter of a King of Hanover, Victoria also bore the Library, home of the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the titles “Princess of Hanover” and “Duchess of Brunswick and Lunenburg”. Then, as the wife of Prince Albert, she University of Minnesota. F The registration fee of $240 held the titles “Princess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha” and per person includes all presentations, Saturday lunch and “Duchess of Saxony”. But we salute her today as the gen- banquet dinner, refreshments at breaks, and conference eral populace of Great Britain did from 20 June 1837 to keepsakes. (Additional Saturday evening banquet dinner for 22 January 1901: To Queen Victoria! non-registered guests is $70 per person.) Please make your check payable to “The Norwegian Explorers” and return Sheila Holtgrieve: A poem to the “Coast of Cornwall”— it—with your completed PDF registration form no later Coming to the coast of Cornwall than July 19, 2019—to the address on the form. F For Hoping to see the woman he loves registration via PayPal and the PDF registration Dr. Sterndale finds her dead, brothers insane, form—including information on programming info, and suddenly he’s bereft of his hopes. lodging and transportation—go to: He knows what caused this situation www.norwegianexplorers.org/2019_ conference.html He brought the root to Cornwall himself. But, how did it get into the Tregennis house?
In the fireplace, in the food, on a bookshelf? Answers To Cook’s Quiz on TWIS on Page 2:
dow of the floor above
Vicar Roundhay comes running to Holmes, working.
6. Her husband in the win‐
Watson sees Dr. Agar’s prescription for rest disappear money begging than
5. Neville St. Clair.
Holmes goes on the scent and focuses on Mortimer 12. He could make more
also there.
And soon all the clues become clear. 11. No one.
4. Sherlock Holmes was
Holmes tries burning the root, nearly kills Watson and himself half‐pennies.
“The Bar of Gold”.
One might even call them dopes, 10. 421 pennies and 270
3. An opium den called
But as the case comes together, 9. Lascar.
ing for two days.
Mortimer Tregennis is not far from the rope. 8. He was a beggar.
2. Her husband was miss‐
Holmes shows mercy to Sterndale 7. Hugh Boone.
1. Kate Whitney. As he did for Croker and Trelawney Hope, an opium den. Page 6 Page 6
Gloger Comments on STOC More Things to See, Buy... Though unable to attend our March Meeting due SUMTER, SC SOB CHARLIE COOK: to a health issue, SOB Sheldon Gloger wanted to In my never ending quest for everything Sherlock, share his input on our study that day of “The I prudently eschewed the “Holmes and Watson” experience. Stock-broker’s Clerk”, which follows— For that I was awarded the wisest person in the room. About the Stock-broker's clerk, if no one else mentioned it, I I did the nominations, was the only candidate and would tell what I learned when I studied the life of (Paul) Julius was the only one in the room. Reuter who made it big when he moved to London. It’s always nice to receive an award! I have not had the time to research this idea so that I would OLY, WA SOB PATT O’NEILL WROTE SIMPLY: ROFLMFAO! not be surprised if it has already been covered by an article in From SOB Cameron Brandon: a Sherlockian publication somewhere during the past 100 Slash Films has listed THE TOP 70 HOLMES MOVIES WHETHER years. BROADCAST ON TV OR IN THEATRES. I usually don't care for So, if the following thought about the clerk has already been these types of articles, but it was cool to see who was considered and maybe even dismissed, I apologize for bring- in each movie, and whether it was Canonical. You can ing it up. If it is a new idea, then perhaps someone will re- find many of them on YouTube. HERE ARE THEIR TOP 10: search it better for presentation when “The Stock-broker’s Sherlock: A Scandal in Belgravia (2012, Cumberbatch, PBS-TV) Clerk” is next featured. Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror (1942, Rathbone) Until the lifetime of Sherlock Holmes, it would have been Sherlock: The Great Game (2010, Cumberbatch, PBS-TV) beneath the dignity of European royalty to associate with busi- The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959, Peter Cushing) ness. It was an untouchable activity across the continent. Reu- Sherlock: A Study in Pink (2010, Cumberbatch, PBS-TV) ter would have had a hard time making it by staying in Berlin. Without a Clue (1988, Michael Caine) But it was different across the Channel. British upper-class Sherlock: The Lying Detective (2017, Cumberbatch, PBS-TV) approved of “trade” as being as dignified as hunting foxes and Terror By Night (1946, Rathbone) so supported the best talent to get ahead, no matter what The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes: The Master Blackmailer class that talent came from. (Think of the Stock-broker's clerk (1992, Granada TV, Brett) as a clever, competent fellow, maybe a Cockney as we listen Murder By Decree (1979, Christopher Plummer) to his words as reported by Watson.) For more: www.slashfilm.com/sherlock-holmes-movies-ranked/ Give the Prince Consort Albert credit since he sponsored the & www.slashfilm.com/sherlock-holmes-movies-ranked-part-2/ “Glass Palace” that showcased industry as being fine for royal- From Jean Upton of the London Scion’s District Messenger: ty to support. It was no accident, then, that old-fashioned conti- As for choosing one’s own favourite Holmes, Paul nental European royalty looked down at England as the land of Thomas Miller (“The Shingle of Southsea”) endorses the trade, but Albert took that as a complement. philosophy that “All Holmes is good Holmes,” and con- The Reuters News Agency was one of those companies that sequently founded DOYLE’S ROTARY COFFIN, “A society promoted its best—ignoring blue-bloods. Its most famous chief formed for the sole purpose of whole-heartedly and con- officer who led the company to dazzling heights of success, trarily enjoying stupid Holmesiana regardless of how was born lower class. This could not have happened in Berlin, Canonical others consider it to be.” Learn more (and Rome, Warsaw or from the Limehouse neighborhood. Only even print off your own membership card) here: well-connected royalty would be given the job. But in Reuters, https://sites.google.com/site/doylesrotarycoffin/what it might have been our very own Stock-broker’s clerk after From PFL David: “TALK ABOUT SHERLOCK” IS A NEW years of steady, deserved promotion. MONTHLY AUDIO BLOG by Mattias Bostrom; in the first epi- This idea allows Brits to laugh at us sode (“The Walking Out Mystery”) he discusses the im- Yanks for our famous belief, “Only in pact of the Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly film “Holmes & America.” Victorian Brits would know Watson” and wonders whether the reported “mass better: That “Only in London” could a walkouts” actually occurred. In the second episode Cockney make it to the top. (“The Micah Clarke Effect”) he discusses the importance Continued from Page 3 of Doyle’s historical fiction. You can listen to both the Hall Pycroft shook his clenched hands in the air. episodes of his blog at www.talkaboutsherlock.libsyn.com. “Good Lord!” he cried, “while I have been fooled in this way, what has this other Hall SOB VP Kashena Konecki told us at the March Meet- Pycroft been doing at Mawson’s? What should ing that Brittany Cavallaro, author of... we do, Mr. Holmes? Tell me what to do.” Continued on Page 7 Volume 38, April 2019, Issue 4 Page 7
...2019 Masters’ Celebration Even More Things to See, Buy... Continued from Page 5 Continued from Page 6 ...the young adult series that began with of his time. His knowledge of London soils and many other aspects of nature, “A Study in Charlotte”, HAS RELEASED HER combined with his use of deductive 4TH BOOK, “A QUESTION OF HOLMES”. More: reasoning, serve as examples to all www.goodreads. com/series/167543-charlotte- who aspire to understand the worlds holmes
around us.” From SOB Judy Lyen: SOMEWHERE IN TIME UNLIMITED IN- Author Note: For your convenience, the U.S. VITES SHERLOCKIANS TO ATTEND THEIR SPRING EVENT—APRIL Mint shows the general area of Sherlock on 27, 2019, 9 A.M. AT TACOMA’S GRAND CINEMA (606 Fawcett the reverse of the bicentennial Eisenhower Avenue). Enjoy a private screening of the William Gil- silver dollar, and the handout you received today shows a photo of the moon, the silver dollar and the loca on of this “out‐of‐this‐ lette 1916 silent film “Sherlock Holmes”. world” Sherlock. Thanks to Peter Blau who told us this story when COST FOR THE FILM: $15. Optional Lunch he visited in October 2017. See the NASA website: follows at 1 p.m. at the Olive Branch Café www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a17/a17.site.html and Tea Room (2501 East D Street, Taco- Geoff Jeffery: Gave a heart-warming toast to ma). LUNCH OPTIONS RUN FROM $35 TO $55 AND his wife of over 40 years, Cara Cross! INCLUDE THE $15 PRICE FOR VIEWING THE FILM FIRST. Once thought lost, the film was re-discovered in 2014 and m Amid all the excitement we were again treated to a performance by The Carpool remastered. Hear the film’s intriguing story, view the Chorus—Sheila Holtgrieve, Airy Maher, our film, and then join us for a post-film luncheon at Webmaster Shannon Wallace & our VP Kashena Gillette’s “sumptuous home”. For more: http://costuming Konecki (sans this year our Associate Editor Lauren Messenger). inseattle.com/sherlockianinvitation/ Chorus leader Sheila is working hard to gain permission from From Peter Blau’s Scuttlebutt from the Spermaceti Press: the composer to reprint the text in our 2020 Beaten’s, but the If you have been thinking about subscribing to the song’s title was “My Sherlockian Favorite Things” and it was sung BAKER STREET JOURNAL, now’s the time to do so, before to the tune of “My Favorite Things” from the 1959 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical “The Sound of Music”!! the spring issue goes to press. Subscribers will receive all five issues, including the Christmas Annual, which m To top it off, Ed South- will be a tribute both to the late William S. Baring- on brought a car full of Gould and his The Annotated Sherlock Holmes. Strike Sherlockiana that he was www.bakerstreet irregu- donating to Club. He is while the iron’s hot! Subscribe at moving to Pittsburg (Boo lars.com. hoo!! Bye, Ed!!!), and his THE BAKER STREET IRREGULARS PRESS AND THE BSI TRUST move is our gain. WILL HOLD A BOOK FAIR ON APRIL 27 at the Chatham- Summit Quaker Friends Meeting House in Chatham, N.J., from noon to 4:00 pm, offering books from various m Then there were lots and lots of smil- BSI Press series, and used books and other Sherlockiana ing faces giving photo ops to our photogs! that have been donated to the Trust. Email Denny Do- Photo credits go to our Twitter Admin- bry at [email protected] and ask him to email you a list. istrator Dawn Kravagna, Margie Deck Proceeds will be used to maintain the BSI Archives at & Editor Terri. the Lilly Library at the University of Indiana.
For more on our Greg Ruby discusses “HOLMES & WAT- 2019 Masters’ SON IN THE GREAT WAR” (emphasizing Celebra on head Rathbone’s and Bruce’s military medals) over to the blog in The Numismatist for Feb. 2019. To por on on the view: www.onlinedigital publishing.com/pub Home Page at lication/?i=562102&vr=html 5&p=50. our website: Ed. Note: For more on this subject refer to http://soundof The SOBs 2017 issue of “Beaten’s Christmas thebaskervilles. com/ Annual” on Pages 47 to 49.
The Sound of the Baskervilles The Sound By appointment ...is a scion society of the Baker Street of the of Her Majesty, Irregulars, serving the greater Puget Sound Queen Victoria Region of Western Washington, U.S.A., and Baskervilles has met monthly since March 31, 1980. $20 per year brings Members the monthly newsletter “Ineffable Twaddle”, a copy of Ineffable Twaddle Beaten’s Christmas Annual, and the incalculable benefits of association with a The monthly publication of group of certifiable Holmes aficionados. The Sound of the Baskervilles Meetings are held the 3rd Sunday of each A Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars since March 31, 1980 month. Location of the meetings may vary. Serving the Greater Puget Sound Region of Western Washington, USA Regularly scheduled additional events throughout the year include: “The Mas- President: David Haugen, PFL, SOB, PSC Vice President: Kashena Konecki ([email protected]) ters’ Celebration” honoring the meeting of Treasurer: Melinda Michaelson ([email protected]) Holmes and Watson (March), “The Annual Secretary/Editor: Terri Haugen ([email protected]) Wreath Throw” commemorating Holmes’ Associate Editor: Lauren Messenger ([email protected]) loss at Reichenbach Falls (May), “The Dr. Board Member Emeritus: Al Nelson ([email protected]) John H. Watson Picnic” (July), and “The Board Member-At-Large: Sheila Holtgrieve ([email protected]) Will Crakes Memorial Jollification” Program Manager: Sondra “Sunny” Even ([email protected]) (December). Other activities—book Webmaster: Shannon Wallace ([email protected]) crawls, teas, plays and gaming events—are Reference Librarian: Chris “Bear” Berwald ([email protected]) as announced. Sunshine Chair: Pat McIntosh ([email protected]) To join or to renew your membership, Direct correspondence to: send your check for dues—$20 for The Sound of the Baskervilles individuals, $30 for families (U.S. funds 6710 – 51st Street Court West only)—to the address shown at left. University Place, WA 98467-2287 Phone: (253) 460-2753 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.soundofthebaskervilles.com Two Great Member News & Notes New Members!!
Our March 17, 2019 Regular Monthly Meeting was Please welcome... presided over by PFL David Haugen. Marian Wiggins! SOB Members present were: As she wrote us, “I found you through Joel Cameron Brandon Sunny Even Terri Haugen Senter of the Sherlockian E-Times out of Sheila Holtgrieve Lauran Stevens Judy Lyen Cincinnati. I subscribed to that newsletter until March 31—Your Joel passed away last year. I had seen some of Dues are Due!! Kashena Konecki Mike Thomas Alex Snow Vivika Sundqvist Mel Briganti Dawn Jaekl the Granada series on PBS and was drawn to 39th Anniversary Tea, Nancy Holder the logic of the stories, the precision of the language, and the relationship between Holmes Saturday, April 6, We’re pretty sure the low attendance—and on St. and Watson. I downloaded "the works" upon 1:00 p.m., Pat’s Day too—was because of Seattle’s ComicCon! retirement and thoroughly enjoyed each of the in Federal Way We knew that Shannon, Airy and Lauren M, at least, stories. I live on the Kitsap Peninsula (so) don't were there!! But newly-wed Mel B made it and she know how active I'll be.” Regular Monthly was glowing! (Her hubby’s name is James!) Our That’s ok, we’ll put Marian in touch with Meeting, Sunday, quiz on STOC was very competitive! There were so Sunny Even and Nancy Holder who also April 14—one week many tics beside so many people’s names that Terri’s live over there!! scoring resulted in categories of winning: Those with early—1:30 p.m. at and, Kitty Holtgrieve! more than 15 answers: Dawn, Sheila and Cameron; Queen Anne Library, Kitty is Sheila’s little girl and, yes, her dues have Seattle more than 10: Nancy, Sunny, Alex, Mel, Mike, Judy nd and Kashena; more than 5: Vivika. New Members: been paid! Of note: She’s our 2 non-human member, but was unavailable for an interview! 37th Annual Wreath Remember that scoring in our quizzes it’s not whether Throw, you answer a question correctly but that Secretary right now due of changes in my back over the Saturday, May 4, Terri hears your voice!! Mike provided a great foot- past couple years...In a few months I may be able note about “St. Vitus’s dance” which Old Mr. Farquhar 11:30 a.m., to attend a meeting that only requires exiting the suffered from and promised to provide an essay on his car and entering a building within a short few in Tumwater th research! Stay tuned! Re: The 5 International yards...I love the Twaddle and hope to see you Regular Monthly Sherlockian Summit, Club VP Kashena will attempt lovely people at least once this year! The meet- by June to find a venue for the event to be held in Meeting, Sunday, ing I was able to attend last year (Masters’ Lunch November this year; if she cannot find a suitable 2018) was delightful with so much laughter and May 19, 1:30 p.m. at th venue by June, the 5 Summit may be re-scheduled cleverness ensuing! Ed. Note: Our Anniversary Queen Anne Library, from this year to the autumn of 2020. More later! Tea on April 6 in Federal Way! Would that be Seattle SOB Sherrill Hendrick: I am not able to get out very convenient, Sherrill!?? See Page 1!!