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 Laughing Man (short story) the character's story in the series pilot, and also presented a copy of "The Catcher in the Rye". The Laughing Man (short story) "The Laughing Man" is a short story by J. D. Salinger, published originally in "The New Yorker" on March 19, 1949; and also in Salinger’s short story collection "Nine Stories". It largely takes the structure of a story within a story and is thematically occupied with the relationship between narrative and narrator, and the end of youth. The story is inspired by the Victor Hugo novel of the same name: "The Man Who Laughs" ("L'homme qui rit").