Thayer David was cast as Wolfe in the 1977 TV movie. [1]:252. The brownstone has a back entrance leading to a private garden, as noted in Champagne for One (chapter 10) and elsewhere, from which a passage leads to 34th Streetused to enter or leave Wolfe's home when it is necessary to evade surveillance. 29 Mai . [4]:2. In. [51] Goldsborough often drew on his own background in advertising, education and journalism for color and detail. Several times during the story, Wolfe announces his intention to reduce his beer intake from six quarts a day to five. He swore he'd let me make it the right way. "He drinks beer in the novel but hot chocolate in the picture. "The extras are skimpy to the point of frustration, however. [10] A person in an alcove at the end of the hallway can open a sliding panel covering the hole, so as to see and hear conversations and other events in the office without being noticed. Once he burned up a cookbook because it said to remove the hide from a ham end before putting it in the pot with lima beans. Although he is usually identified by only his surname, in, Felix Courbet Part owner and manager of Rusterman's Restaurant following the death of Marko Vuki. The weekly series was preceded by the television film, The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery, first broadcast March 5, 2000. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. A Marley revolver (also Carley, in "Die Like A Dog") is Archie's weapon of choice. "Rex does not use the orchid schedule to gloss over gummy plotting. Wolfe's hunt for a temporary replacement for his gardener leads him and Archie to a remote mansion where, in the greenhouse, a young woman has been gassed to death. [132], This article is about Rex Stout's fictional detective. Recommended for age 12 and over. It was, therefore, shown from angles that would camouflage any slight discrepancies. Wolfe does not invite people to use his first name and addresses them by honorific and surname. 7.2 /10 Rate Browse episodes Top-rated 1 Season 2012 Photos 9 Top cast Edit Francesco Pannofino Nero Wolfe The series ran Sundays at 8 p.m. We are leaving the door open "I haven't kept score, but I would say that of the two hundred or so books he reads in a year not more than five or six get an A," Archie writes. Thus, despite numerous statements by Wolfe and Archie regarding his Either you get it or you don't. Although some readers interpret this attitude as simple, That Wolfe disapproves of women is well established, but Archie claims that there are nuances: "The basic fact about a woman that seemed to irritate him was that she was a woman; the long record showed not a single exception; but from there on the documentation was cockeyed. On weekdays, Fritz serves Wolfe his breakfast in his bedroom. Many costumes were found at vintage shops or in Hargadon's personal collection; some clothes were taken apart and reconstructed with new fabrics to capture the color required. Archie Goodwin introduces Nero Wolfe as "a man who thinks he's the world's greatest detective. He reacts bitterly when his sleep is interrupted or otherwise shortened by events, such as late-night interrogations at Homicide headquarters or a precinct, or a 1:45a.m. phone call from a client who has lost her keys,[44] or driving a suspect to her home in Carmel and returning to Manhattan at 2:30a.m.[45]. Felix plays a major role in both ". Except for breakfast (which chef Fritz Brenner generally serves him in the kitchen), Archie takes his meals at Wolfe's table, and has learned much about haute cuisine by listening to Wolfe and Fritz discuss food. No sooner did Hutton make his first entrance in The Golden Spiders than he melded completely with the Archie of my mind's eye. Archie has frequent reason to note that he needs at least eight hours' sleep each night, and prefers more. Wolfe ponders with his eyes closed, leaning back in his chair, breathing deeply and steadily, and pushing his lips in and out. You have to believe in the characters and respect the formality of the way they are characterized.[14]. The New York Times recalled that television climate, and A&E's response to it, in June 2004: Two years ago Nick Davatzes, president and chief executive of A&E Television Networks, called his executives to a retreat, to "wallow in the mud," as he described the exercise. For one, a number of the adaptations are feature-length, and the eye-catching cinematography, set design, and period costuming lean more towards a feature film than a basic cable television series. The front door is equipped with a chain bolt, a bell that can be shut off as needed, and a pane of one-way glass, which enables Archie to see who is on the stoop before deciding whether to open the door. The series is not yet available for streaming in North America. [1]:488. Adee being a scholar, sleuth, gourmet, bachelor, a model of efficiency, a master of the English language is said to have inspired the characterization of Wolfe. "[23] The Audio Partners Publishing Corporation promoted its bestselling line of Rex Stout audiobooks, unabridged on CD and audiocassette, "as seen on A&E TV.". Archie Goodwin, Wolfe's sharp-witted, dapper young confidential assistant with an eye for attractive women, narrates the cases and does the legwork for the detective genius. Nero Wolfe has been portrayed in four radio drama series on five different networks. When the detective series was in the works, Timothy Hutton, who played Nero Wolfe's assistant, The cause is unknown. The series has been broadcast on public and commercial networks, cable television and satellite systems throughout the world, and was presented throughout Europe and Africa on the Hallmark Channel.[i]. Wolfe's chef Fritz is asked to cook for an elite club of epicures, but when one of the guests is poisoned with arsenic suspicion turns to one of the beautiful serving girls. Nero Wolfe was produced for A&E by Jaffe/Braunstein Films, one of the first production companies to use high-definition video for television. Beck reported that Hutton would be happy to make one or two Nero Wolfe TV movies a year. Effective novelistic dialogue is not usually effective screen dialogue, as Raymond Chandler discovered when he worked on the script for the 1944 film of James M. Cain's Double Indemnity. He felt that it was necessary to find actors who understood and fit in with the show's unique approach. [103][105][106][ad] Paramount paid $200,000 for the TV rights to eight hours of Nero Wolfe. The corpus implies or states that Nero Wolfe was born in Montenegro, with one exception. Wolfe does not suffer idiots well. That likely wasn't high enough for A&E to justify the production costs. Four or five dozen are used to advance the investigation in Murder by the Book, and Wolfe refuses to let Archie bill the client for them. But in The Golden Spiders, Fritz prepares fried chicken for Wolfe, Archie, Saul, Orrie, and Fred. Wolfe hits the desk with his fist, bellows in a language Archie does not understand, then coldly orders Fritz away when he enters with the beer: "Take it back. Archie's bedroom is one floor above Wolfe's,[p] and his room and board at the brownstone are part of his compensation. "It's a non-address, the real estate equivalent of those 555 telephone numbers used in movies." and Shatner in The World of Suzie Wong. "I always regretted I did not get to play Dora Chapin. Wolfe does not, however, enjoy visiting restaurants (with the occasional exception of Rusterman's, owned for a time by Wolfe's best friend Marko Vukcic and later subject to Wolfe's trusteeship). I've known him for years and years. Viola Brothers Shore wrote a parody titled "A Case of Facsimile" (1948) in which Nerissa Wolfe, Alan Vanneman, a published writer of two novel-length Sherlock Holmes pastiches, also wrote, The Nero Wolfe corpus was nominated Best Mystery Series of the Century at, Nero Wolfe is one of 12 famous fictional detectives depicted in a set of, Nero Wolfe is highlighted in volume 17 of the, This page was last edited on 11 January 2023, at 23:50. "If The Red Box is any indication, many more will be. In the first chapter of Over My Dead Body (1939), Wolfe tells an FBI agent that he was born in the United Statesa declaration at odds with all other references. Lionel Stander reprised his role as Archie Goodwin, and Walter Connolly took over the role of Nero Wolfe. Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, Available instantly. They have never been finer. Some commentators see this as a conscious device by Stout to fuse the hard school of Dashiell Hammett's Sam Spade with the urbanity of Sherlock Holmes or Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot. WebIt was the first Nero Wolfe mystery novella. Many reviewers and critics regard Archie Goodwin as the true protagonist of the Nero Wolfe corpus. One of the reasons that I never actually tried to make it as a series was that I didn't believe a network would ever let us make it the right way. An assistant district attorney was either Mandel or Mandelbaum. The entire second season was shot in HD [30], Nero Wolfe features costume design by Christopher Hargadon. [1]:325, Biographer John McAleer reported that Stout enjoyed Greenstreet's portrayal. Archie's room is on the second floor in the first three novels: "I believe Stout uses such crude statements to have us feel how objectionable they are", Gotwald wrote, adding that Archie's ethnic slur in chapter 2 of, But the admonition apparently did not take hold. [34] Martinez and Banks were nominated for a Golden Reel Award (Best Sound Editing in Television Long Form Music) for the second-season premiere, "Death of a Doxy". Archie eats his separately in the kitchen, although Wolfe might ask Fritz to send Archie upstairs if he has morning instructions for him. The acclaimed period drama, starring Timothy Hutton, averaged about a 1.7rating in its second season. [101], The 1959 Nero Wolfe pilot episode was released on DVD and Blu-ray in October 2018 by VCI Entertainment, in Television's Lost Classics: Volume 2. "Columbia's idea was to keep Arnold busy with low-cost Wolfe films between features. The programs are set in the period, and much of the dialogue is lifted directly from the novel. Nero Wolfe is played by Donatas Banionis, and Archie Goodwin by Sergei Zhigunov. Wolfe either takes to bed and eats nothing but bread and onion soup, or else he consults with Fritz on menus and the preparation of nonstop meals. Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe books (novels and novella/short story collections) are listed below in order of publication. Aside from his employees, one of the only two men whom Wolfe addresses by their first names is his oldest friend, Marko Vuki; Marko calls him Nero. The A&E Network Series (2001-2002) A Nero Wolfe Mystery was a television series adapted from Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired for two seasons (20012002) on A&E network. Set in New York City in the early 1950s, the stylized period drama starred Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. During a party hosting unwed mothers, one of the guests dies suddenly of cyanide poisoning -- leading to controversy and intrigue when Archie, alone of the attendees, insists that she was actually murdered. Herb Aronson and Al Goller friendly cabbies who make themselves available to Archie for mobile surveillance jobs. One of the adaptations, Poka ya ne umer ("Before I Die") (Russian: ), was written by Vladimir Valutsky, screenwriter for a Russian Sherlock Holmes television series in the 1980s. In 2014 the first season of Nero Wolfe was reissued by A&E's new distribution partner, Lions Gate Entertainment. The Pearson Television International version presents "Prisoner's Base" as a 90-minute film with a single set of titles and credits, and it includes three scenes (3.5 minutes) found on pp. The series won praise for its high production values and jazzy score by Michael Small, and for preserving the language and spirit of the original stories. He is a. "I don't believe we were thinking, or Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton were thinking, there's a series here. Instead Edward Arnold got it", McAleer reported in Rex Stout: A Biography. They are never irrelevant. [112], Manhattan Brownstone used for exteriors in, The exception is the second-season premiere directed by Timothy Hutton. It's so important to have the relationships right, and the tone of the relationships right, to get that it's about the language and not the story. Features include "Over My Dead Body" and "Death of a Doxy." Louis Vittes wrote the scripts for the 30-minute program,[81] based on Stout's principal characters but not his stories. Wolfe's most remarkable departure from the brownstone is due to personal reasons, not to business, and thus does not violate the rule regarding the conduct of business away from the office. Nero Wolfe was one of the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002. The series won praise for its high production values and jazzy score by Michael Small, and for preserving the language and spirit of the original stories. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). prayer for recovery message. Nero Wolfes Brownstone: Stay at Home Day 37 Monday, February 21, 2022 Bob Byrne 1 comment So, in 2020, as the Pandemic settled in like an unwanted relative who just came for a week and is still tying up the bathroom, I did a series of posts for the FB Page of the Nero Wolfe fan club, The Wolfe Pack. '"[1]:76, Kari Matchett has the distinction of playing a recurring role (Archie Goodwin's sometime girlfriend Lily Rowan) and a non-recurring role (nightclub singer Julie Jaquette) in the same episode, "Death of a Doxy." It was, as far as I know, the first TV series without a single original script each and every episode was based on a Rex Stout novel, novella, or short story. He wrote no fiction for more than a [23][k] Wolfe personally cuts his most treasured Phalaenopsis Aphrodite for the centerpiece at the dinner for the Ten for Aristology in "Poison la Carte". The stories have been adapted for film, radio, television and the stage. The A&E series was able to adopt verbatim both the sharp exchanges between Wolfe and Archie, and as well Archie's narration in voiceover. That's writing. Archie also complains that there is never corned beef or rye bread on Wolfe's table, and he sometimes ducks out to eat a corned beef sandwich at a nearby diner. The network cited escalating production "We finally got this opportunity," said Michael Jaffe. "I had chased the rights numerous times. [37], "I do know A&E's decision not to continue didn't have anything to do with ratings; it was their highest-rated series," Timothy Hutton told columnist Marilyn Beck in November 2002. The idea was later co-opted by William S. Baring-Gould and implied in the novels of Nicholas Meyer and John Lescroart, but there is no evidence that Rex Stout had any such connection in mind. (U.S. The brownstone has three floors plus a large basement with living quarters, a rooftop greenhouse also with living quarters, and a small elevator, used almost exclusively by Wolfe. The New Adventures of Nero Wolfe was the first radio series that, like the Stout stories themselves, stressed characterization over plot. A semi-fictional revolver brand is the Haskell (mentioned in A Right To Die). Reid as Sergeant Purley Stebbins. Recommended for age 12 and over. In the mid-1970s he established a friendship with the Stout estate and was working with his father, Henry Jaffe, a successful attorney turned producer, when the Nero Wolfe rights came on the market. Archie also frequently goes to Manhattan addresses that do not exist, for instance, 171 East 52nd Street in Might As Well Be Dead. Screen format is 4:3 full frame. "[1]:445. It's more the enjoyment of the characters and their eccentricities, and the reality of those characters. Looking at him, I said to myself, "He's in a battle with the elements. The psychology of Rex Stout, Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin. Credit certainly goes to the skills of the repertory actors who played the roles, and especially to Maury Chaykin and Timothy Hutton; but it was Stout who supplied the language and the characters who speak it. Set in New York City sometime in the 1940s1950s, the stylized period drama stars Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. Cohen settled on 922 West 35th Streetthe address printed on Archie's business card in The Silent Speakeras Nero Wolfe's address. (, Wolfe has an aversion to physical contact, even shaking hands. [96] The half-hour program concerned the mysterious death of a scientist during a guided missile launch at Cape Canaveral. That event occurs in The Black Mountain, when he leaves not only the brownstone but the United States to avenge the murder of his oldest friend. High production costs and low ratings have spelled doom for A&E's "Nero Wolfe," starring Timothy Hutton. 35, 21 and 2728 of the script written by Lee Goldberg and William Rabkin.[108]. Whales have." Jaffe/Braunstein Films, Ltd., secured the rights to the Nero Wolfe stories in 1998. In forty years Wolfe has scarcely ever shortened an orchid schedule. Goldsborough resumed the series in 2012 with Archie Meets Nero Wolfe, a prequel to Stout's novels. He has breakfast in his bedroom while wearing yellow silk pajamas; he hates to discuss work during breakfast, and if forced to do so insists upon not uttering a word until he has finished his glass of orange juice (. For specific publication history, including original magazine appearances, see entries for individual titles. "We finally got this opportunity", said Michael Jaffe. Wolfe's office becomes nearly soundproof when the doors connecting it to the front room and the hallway are closed. If woman as woman grated on him you would suppose that the most womanly details would be the worst for him, but time and again I have known him to have a chair placed for a female so that his desk would not obstruct his view of her legs, and the answer can't be that his interest is professional and he reads character from legs, because the older and dumpier she is the less he cares where she sits. ", Actually released in June 2003 for exclusive sale by A&E Store and select outlets, Actually released in June 2004 for exclusive sale by A&E Store and select outlets, Reissue of out-of-print box set by new distributor, Features include "Prisoner's Base" (presented as a 90-minute film with a single set of titles and credits), "Eeny Meeny Murder Moe" and "Disguise for Murder." Then A&E came along, and Allen Sabinson. Paramount Television remounted Nero Wolfe as a weekly one-hour series that ran on NBC TV from January through August 1981. Continuing the invitation, Wolfe says of a certain brandy, "I hope this won't shock you, but the way to do it is to sip it with bites of Fritz's apple pie.". Yet a young woman gives Wolfe a lesson in preparing corned beef hash in "Cordially Invited to Meet Death". Noting Archie's colloquialisms in the first two Nero Wolfe novels, Rev. Johnny Keems freelance operative occasionally called in by Wolfe. All 14 episodes were set in contemporary New York City. "Any reader who can't or won't do the same should skip them. Seated at his desk, Wolfe presses the button twice to ring for beer, and Fritz delivers the bottles unopened; Wolfe uncaps the bottles himself, using an 18-karat gold bottle opener given to him by a satisfied client. The cancellation comes a few weeks after A&E ousted its proramming chief,Allen Sabinson. [13], "It was a screenwriting assignment unlike any other that my writing partner, William Rabkin, and I had ever been involved with," wrote screenwriter Lee Goldberg, who adapted four Stout stories for the series. ), The exception is the second-season premiere directed by Timothy Hutton. Both actors were then starring on Broadwaythe Vienna-born Kasznar in Noel Coward's Look After Lulu! I would be an idiot to leave this chair, made to fit me . Yes, each individual episode of the show is labeled A Nero Wolfe Mystery but the series as a whole is a collection of Nero Wolfe mysteries, plural. Then A&E came along, and Allen Sabinson. I didn't watch Nero Wolfe so much as devour it, and that this is such a rewatchable series makes it especially worth owning on DVD. The show was independently produced and partially subsidized by A&E. Some Wold Newton theorists have suggested the French thief Arsne Lupin as the father of Nero Wolfe. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Nero Wolfe is a television series adapted from Rex Stout 's series of detective stories that aired for two seasons (20012002) on A&E. Set in New York City sometime in the 1940s1950s, the stylized period drama stars Maury Chaykin as Nero Wolfe and Timothy Hutton as Archie Goodwin. [19][20] The Red Box was the most-searched mystery title in August 2003,[21] and the novel remained as number two on the list in 2004. In In the Best Families, when Mr. Wolfe left the brownstone he left the door open to show everyone that he had left and the brownstone was empty. Why was Nero Wolfe Cancelled? A prominent government official is murdered at dinner event hosted by a business organisation he publicly opposed, leading the organisation to hire Wolfe to clear their names. There is a small hole in the office wall covered by what Archie calls a "trick picture of a waterfall". Stout replied, "I don't know. Another contradiction is found in Plot It Yourself when Archie goes to a diner to eat "fried chicken like my Aunt Margie used to make it back in Ohio", since Fritz does not fry chicken. Copyright Office Document Number V3412D882, recorded March 13, 1998. "Nero Wolfe is a beautifully shot series, and its release on DVD is frequently stunning," wrote DVD Talk's Adam Tyner in his comprehensive review of A&E Home Video's "Nero Wolfe: The Complete Classic Whodunit Series": I didn't feel at all as if I'd been watching a television show. In 1957, Ellery Queen called this "The Great O-E Theory" and suggested that it was derived from the father of mysteries, Edgar Allan Poe. Wolfe opens his orchid rooms to the public, but quickly regrets it when a young confidence trickster is murdered in his office moments after revealing to Archie that she has identified a murderer among the visitors. In addition to starring in the series, Hutton directed four episodes and served as an executive producer. ", Wolfe states that "all music is a vestige of barbarism", Wolfe displays a pronounced, almost pathological, dislike for the company of women. (The 1940 story "Bitter End" suggests the contrary view that Wolfe was unable to prepare his own meals; Fritz's illness with the flu causes a household crisis and forces Wolfe to resort to canned liver pt for his lunch. In the preface to the second edition of his book At Wolfe's Door: The Nero Wolfe Novels of Rex Stout, J. Kenneth Van Dover assessed the fidelity of the show to its literary source: A quarter century after his death, the Nero Wolfe books remain in print and, as a result of a very popular A&E television series which premiered in 2000, their continuing presence seems assured. "Sale 10864, Lot 117. There was a problem. Carla Lovchen Wolfe's adopted daughter, who appears in only two stories. [8], I rarely leave my house. Broadcasting+Cable is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. A Nero Wolfe Mystery was one of the Top 10 Basic Cable Dramas for 2002.[j][91]. [129] "It's something of a surprise that none of the Wolfe novels have been adapted for the stage before", wrote the Twin Cities Daily Planet. They have a wonderful set in Toronto, a wonderful library (for Wolfe). That means that he was likely to have been involved in the harrowing 1915 withdrawal of the defeated Serbian army, when thousands of soldiers died from disease, starvation, and sheer exhaustion[d]which might help to explain the comfort-loving habits that are such a conspicuous part of Wolfe's character. Please refresh the page and try again. An actor who had been "killed off" in one show might portray the murderer in the next. WebThis is a bibliography of fiction by and works about the American writer Rex Stout (December 1, 1886 October 27, 1975), an American writer noted for his detective fiction. Compared to Wolfe, Archie is the man of action, tough and street smart. In Plot It Yourself (chapter 13), Wolfe makes an unprecedented vow after Archie tells him the killer they seek has killed again. NY 10036. "[2], The series was preceded by the original film The Golden Spiders: A Nero Wolfe Mystery, a Jaffe/Braunstein Films production that aired on A&E March 5, 2000. "And Hutton, bless him, took pains to make sure that the stoop, meticulously recreated in a freezing Ontario warehouse soundstage really did have seven steps", reported Martin Sieff of, WireImage (image numbers 253302 253308) and, Robert M. Hamilton lists all of the orchids mentioned in Archie's accounts in alphabetical order. He is strong in family loyalties, has great pride, is impatient of restraint. Like Wolfe, he has developed an extraordinary memory and can recite verbatim conversations that go on for hours. At the age of sixteen I decided to move around, and in fourteen years I became acquainted with most of Europe, a little of Africa, and much of Asia, in a variety of roles and activities. Not only does he catch Archie's snap-brim Thirties tone with sharp-eared precision, but he also bears an uncanny physical resemblance to the dapper detective-narrator I've been envisioning all these years. Archie says that during these trances Wolfe reacts to nothing that is going on around him. biographer John McAleer asked the author. The success of the series is significant especially because the scripts remained remarkably faithful to the novels. Inspector Cramer's first name, rarely invoked, was originally Fergus, and later modified to L.T. "There are people who know all the books, and they know all these specifics, and if you screw up, you know, they get really upset so everything is as per written", Hermer-Bell said. ), Wolfe's meals generally include an appetizer, a main course, a salad served after the entre (with the salad dressing mixed at tableside and used immediately), and a dessert course with coffee. The series was shot in Toronto, with select Manhattan exteriors filmed for the series premiere, "The Doorbell Rang," and seen in subsequent episodes including "Prisoner's Base." The series was shot in Toronto,[b] with select Manhattan exteriors filmed for the series premiere, "The Doorbell Rang," and seen in subsequent episodes including "Prisoner's Base."[11][c]. NEW YORK High production costs and low ratings have spelled doom for A&Es Nero Wolfe, starring Timothy Hutton. Still, Archie could have wandered out of any number of screwball comedies; Nero Wolfe is a far more complicated proposition. It was you and your brothers, black and white, who let me come here and live, and I hope you'll let me say, without getting maudlin, that I'm grateful to you for it. A total of 20 episodes were produced over the two-season run. With Prohibition at an end, he can stop buying kegs of bootleg beer and purchase it legally in bottles. A young Rita Hayworth (then Rita Cansino) portrays Maria Maringola, who sets the story in motion when she asks for Wolfe's help in finding her missing brother, Carlo. Web"Pair of Swords" - Nero Wolfe refuses a job from an immigrant fencing instructor accused of stealing jewelry at a prestigious club. [89] The series had Stout's enthusiastic cooperation. Silent Movie Idol Francis X. 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Vandermeulen in the American Orchid Society Bulletin. [87] Nero Wolfe had averaged a 1.7 rating for the month of May 2002, while viewing levels for the A&E Network overall were 1.1. It was the last day of shooting for "The Silent Speaker". It is a very complex question and some day I'm going to take a whole chapter for it." The theme music was composed by Alex North. [1]:488 By April 1957 CBS had purchased the rights and was pitching a Nero Wolfe TV series to advertisers. why was cry wolfe cancelled. Wolfe serves Remisier brandy or Follansbee's gin to guests and drinks Remmers' beer. Distributed by the A&E Television Networks in the United States and Canada, Nero Wolfe first aired on the A&E Network April 22, 2001. Entering from the stairs via a vestibule, there were three main roomsone for cattleyas, laelias, and hybrids; one for odontoglossums, oncidiums, miltonias, and their hybrids; and a tropical room (according to Fer-de-Lance). For surely Archie is one of the folk heroes in which the modern American temper can see itself transfigured.