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 Fifth Quarter (short story) The Fifth Quarter (short story) "The Fifth Quarter" is a short story by American author Stephen King, originally published in the April 1972 issue of "Cavalier" (under the pen name John Swithen) and later collected in King's 1993 collection "Nightmares & Dreamscapes". It was filmed as an episode of the TNT miniseries "Nightmares & Dreamscapes: From the Stories of Stephen King". In the notes for this story, King remarks "Bachman again or maybe George Stark", a reference to his pseudonym Richard Bachman whose "relationship" with him was the basis of the character George Stark for the novel "The Dark Half".