Whatever became of Sherlock Holmes’s rival Moriarty?
Professor James Moriarty, “the Napoleon of Crime,” was killed.
Moriarty and Holmes, locked in combat, fell over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
Amazingly, Holmes survived.
Professor James Moriarty, “the Napoleon of Crime,” was killed.
Moriarty and Holmes, locked in combat, fell over the edge of the Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland.
Amazingly, Holmes survived.
Greek tragic actors wore “buskins,” boots that reached halfway up the calf and had thick soles to make the actors seem taller. The Greek word for the boot was cothurnus. “Buskin” first appeared as the English term in the sixteenth century.
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you,/ Weep, and you weep alone” are the opening lines of the poem “Solitude” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1855-1919).
The Argonauts were the crew of the ship Argo, which sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) by Oscar Wilde includes the statement “I can resist everything except temptation”.
The opening line: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring…
Cabaret was based on the play I Am a Camera (1951) by John Van Druten, which was in turn based on Isherwood’s “Sally Bowles,” a story appearing in Goodbye to Berlin (1939). Isherwood lived in Berlin in the early 1930s.