Alphabet associations - I

[Nick Armstrong]

Take Three Girls! With Susan Jameson (IIRC) playing the single mother of a son called "Aeneas", which my younger self thought utterly naff!
So much for my research into Charlie's Angels or a possible sitcom called Three Little Maids!

And isn't Flight the title of Jonathan Dove's first opera?

Are you sure you trust a mind that works this way with a G?

If so:

A G that connects:

Conan Doyle's thoroughbred
Marin Marais' actor
and (extra hard) a serial contributor to Sporting Life.

Answer non-musical; one answer musical, the others more literary.

Gerard, methinks, sans google.

Depardieu played Marin Marais didn't he (he plays most leads in French fillums) in "Tous les Matins..."

Wasn't there a racehorse in a Sherlock Holmes story called Brigadier Gerard?

No idea about the third element...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Wow! Straight in at Number One, it's Caliban with the overall answer and the second "clue" fully solved.
The Conan Doyle is almost there, too: the "Brigardier Gerard" stories are independent of the Sherlock Holmeses, but there is a racehorse element. (Curses! I was hoping somebody would go for Silver Blaze!)

... I said "extra hard" for the third one

[Nick Armstrong]

Wow! Straight in at Number One, it's Caliban with the overall answer and the second "clue" fully solved.
The Conan Doyle is almost there, too: the "Brigardier Gerard" stories are independent of the Sherlock Holmeses, but there is a racehorse element. (Curses! I was hoping somebody would go for Silver Blaze!)

... I said "extra hard" for the third one

Ah yes - I conflating two things aren't I? Conan Doyle's BG was a soldier... And then there was a real Grand National winner named after the character I think.

As to the third one... suppressing the instinct to make a bad 'Viagra' joke - I really have no idea!

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah yes - I conflating two things aren't I? Conan Doyle's BG was a soldier... And then there was a real Grand National winner named after the character I think.

As to the third one... suppressing the instinct to make a bad 'Viagra' joke - I really have no idea!

Yield it! Yield it! (Not a clue, by the way!)

[Nick Armstrong]

The only thing yielded by Google is that Gerard Jerome Melling was a cartoonist who contributed to (among others) Sporting Life...

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Ah, but that's not extra hard ('tho' his pencil might push you in the right direction).




... conjuring all sorts of unwelcome images!

PS: this third element is the music one.

[mercia]

a wild shot in the dark

pencil hardness is H
add H to Gerard to get Gerhard, the composer of the music to the film This Sporting Life ???????

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

a wild shot in the dark

pencil hardness is H
add H to Gerard to get Gerhard, the composer of the music to the film This Sporting Life ???????

A "wild shot" that hits the bullseye, mercia!

Yes, Roberto Gerhard, the (serial) composer who wrote the score of the Lindsay Anderson film.

So, the "association" is Ger(h)ard: Conan Doyle's Brigadier (after whom the Horse was named), Depardieu, and Roberto.

Right: who's on for H itself? Cali got 2/3 ... ?

[mercia]

Cali

[Nick Armstrong]

a wild shot in the dark

pencil hardness is H
add H to Gerard to get Gerhard, the composer of the music to the film This Sporting Life ???????

Bloody brilliant, merc !!!

[Nick Armstrong]

Right: who's on for H itself? Cali got 2/3 ... ?

H-h-h-h-happy to. Leave it with me a few moments...

[Nick Armstrong]

OK gang: what H connects some very early cartography, Connie Sachs and a pair of 1969 Canticles?

[mercia]

Hereford

Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral
Birthplace of Beryl Reid who played Connie in the TV le Carre
Howells Hereford Canticles

[Nick Armstrong]

Hereford

Mappa Mundi in Hereford Cathedral
Birthplace of Beryl Reid who played Connie in the TV le Carre
Howells Hereford Canticles

Seven minutes! What kept you, mercie???

Bravissimo

Rather grateful, actually - I have to go and attend a function now, may be some time...

Up to you to get all I and mighty...

[mercia]

rather clumsy and inelegant this, however

an I to connect

- a one-time Grimgerde
- a late 16th century south-of-the-river theatrical murder
- an R&B singer from Jackson, TN