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 Purity of the Turf (short story) part of the series "What Ho! Jeeves" starring Michael Hordern as Jeeves and Richard Briers as Bertie Wooster. The Purity of the Turf (short story) "The Purity of the Turf" is a short story by P. G. Wodehouse, and features the young gentleman Bertie Wooster and his valet Jeeves. The story was published in "The Strand Magazine" in London in July 1922, and then in "Cosmopolitan" in New York that same month. The story was also included in the 1923 collection "The Inimitable Jeeves". The story features a school fair, where Bertie, Bertie's friend Bingo Little, and Jeeves form a