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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>''Doyle's Play is Rather Tame'' is an article published in the [[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] on 18 june 1899.<br />
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The article is about the [[Arthur Conan Doyle]]'s play : [[Halves]] and [[William Gillette]]'s play : [[Sherlock Holmes (play 1899)|Sherlock Holmes]].<br />
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== Doyle's Play is Rather Tame ==<br />
[[File:st-louis-post-dispatch-1899-06-18-p16-doyle-s-play-is-rather-tame.jpg|thumb|150px|right|[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]] (18 june 1899, p. 16)]]<br />
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'''"Halves" Said to Be Devoid of Dramatic Features.'''<br />
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'''Clean, But Tedious.'''<br />
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'''Gillette Puts "Sherlock Holmes" on the Stage.'''<br />
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'''News of the Week in London of Theaters, New Plays and the Actors Who Represent the Characters.'''<br />
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''Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch''<br />
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LONDON, June 17. — Conan Doyle has made his bow as a dramatist with a play called "Halves" at the Garrick. Two brothers agree to share their fortunes at the expiration of twenty-five years, and a simple story is told in a prologue and three acts, which consist largely of conversations, soliloquies and asides.<br />
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Pleasing in idea and wholly unobjectionable, the effort is curiously devoid of dramatic instinct and suspense. It leaves the impression of a magazine story presented under disadvantages.<br />
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William Gillette's detective play, with Sherlock Holmes as the central figure, was given a copyright performance Monday. Herbert Waring and Ida Conquest took the leading parts, the others being intrusted to competent English actors.<br />
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Mr. Gillette, Annie Russell and Charles Frohman composed the audience.<br />
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The play, though founded on Doyle's story called "A Scandal in Bohemia," is mainly Mr. Gillette's invention.<br />
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After the performance Mr. Gillette expressed dissatisfaction with the work, which he thought required a thorough overhauling in order to have a chance of success. The others present were enthusiastic in its praise.<br />
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