The Adventure of the Speckled Band a pipe. Even Conan Doyle's bow was upstaged when Lyn Harding appeared at curtain call with the snake draped around his neck. "The Speckled Band" ran for 169 performances at the Adelphi Theatre before transferring to the Globe on 28 August. The play enjoyed a successful tour in England, with two touring-companies on the road by the end of August, while the New York presentation was marred by clumsy production. Conan Doyle's financial difficulties were at an end, yet there were still problems to be resolved with the production. While the human cast was excellent, the live snake proved to
The Swimmer (short story) The Swimmer (short story) "The Swimmer", a short story by American author John Cheever, was originally published in "The New Yorker" on July 18, 1964, and then in the 1964 short story collection "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow". It was later collected in "The Stories of John Cheever". In 1968 "The Swimmer" was adapted into a film of the same name, starring Burt Lancaster. The story begins with Neddy Merrill lounging at a friend's pool on a warm midsummer day. On a whim, Neddy decides to get home by swimming through all the pools in the neighborhood (which he