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	== Promise of the Week ==		== Promise of the Week ==
	[[File:st-louis-globe-democrat-1900-12-30-p42-promise-of-the-week.jpg\|thumb\|~~250px~~\|right\|[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]] (30 december 1900, p. 42)<br><br>WM. GILLETTE AS "SHERLOCK HOLMES" — OLYMPIC.]]		[[File:st-louis-globe-democrat-1900-12-30-p42-promise-of-the-week.jpg\|thumb\|350px\|right\|[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]] (30 december 1900, p. 42)<br><br>WM. GILLETTE AS "SHERLOCK HOLMES" — OLYMPIC.]]

	"[[Sherlock Holmes]]," [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. Conan Doyle]]'s hero of a thousand difficult problems; the detective who is the ideal of all English readers, has been incarnated by [[William Gillette]] in the play he has made out of [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. Doyle]]'s stories, and which will be seen at the Olympic Theater for a week, beginning Monday night. It is said that by lending to [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. Doyle]]'s conception all of the actor-author's acknowledged ability and talent of impersonation [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] has created a character that is as real as it is unique, and as unique as it has become popular. The plan ran at the Garrick Theater, New York, for thirty-six consecutive weeks last season, and after a short season in this country is to be taken to Sir Henry Irving's Lyceum Theater, London, for a run. In New York the play became the vogue and [[Sherlock Holmes (play 1899-1900 Garrick Theatre)\|Sherlock Holmes]] scored a great success. The action is heightened by a perfection of scenic and lighting effects seldom if ever equaled. Some reviewers have declared that [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] exercises hypnotic influence over his audience, and all who see the play are surprised that the time of presentation seems so short, so absorbed are they. The story of the play is founded on a hitherto unpublished episode in the life of the great detective, showing his connection with the strange case of "Miss Faulkner." At the death of her sister the young woman obtains possession of certain papers and photographs which compromise the scion of a noble house, who, realizing the danger that menaces him through their existence, commissions "[[Sherlock Holmes\|Holmes]]" to get possession of them. In the meantime, "Miss Faulkner" has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous man and his wife, who want the papers for blackmailing purposes, and who hold her a prisoner in their London home. Here "[[Sherlock Holmes\|Holmes]]" finds her and the papers. He falls in love with the young lady and allows her to keep the papers. The blackmailers call to their assistance "[[Professor Moriarty\|Prof. Moriarity]]," a "high caliph of crime," who enters into the scheme with great enthusiasm, born of a hatred for "[[Sherlock Holmes\|Holmes]]." The chief interest of the play centers in the struggle for supremacy between these past masters.		"[[Sherlock Holmes]]," [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. Conan Doyle]]'s hero of a thousand difficult problems; the detective who is the ideal of all English readers, has been incarnated by [[William Gillette]] in the play he has made out of [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. Doyle]]'s stories, and which will be seen at the Olympic Theater for a week, beginning Monday night. It is said that by lending to [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. Doyle]]'s conception all of the actor-author's acknowledged ability and talent of impersonation [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] has created a character that is as real as it is unique, and as unique as it has become popular. The plan ran at the Garrick Theater, New York, for thirty-six consecutive weeks last season, and after a short season in this country is to be taken to Sir Henry Irving's Lyceum Theater, London, for a run. In New York the play became the vogue and [[Sherlock Holmes (play 1899-1900 Garrick Theatre)\|Sherlock Holmes]] scored a great success. The action is heightened by a perfection of scenic and lighting effects seldom if ever equaled. Some reviewers have declared that [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] exercises hypnotic influence over his audience, and all who see the play are surprised that the time of presentation seems so short, so absorbed are they. The story of the play is founded on a hitherto unpublished episode in the life of the great detective, showing his connection with the strange case of "Miss Faulkner." At the death of her sister the young woman obtains possession of certain papers and photographs which compromise the scion of a noble house, who, realizing the danger that menaces him through their existence, commissions "[[Sherlock Holmes\|Holmes]]" to get possession of them. In the meantime, "Miss Faulkner" has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous man and his wife, who want the papers for blackmailing purposes, and who hold her a prisoner in their London home. Here "[[Sherlock Holmes\|Holmes]]" finds her and the papers. He falls in love with the young lady and allows her to keep the papers. The blackmailers call to their assistance "[[Professor Moriarty\|Prof. Moriarity]]," a "high caliph of crime," who enters into the scheme with great enthusiasm, born of a hatred for "[[Sherlock Holmes\|Holmes]]." The chief interest of the play centers in the struggle for supremacy between these past masters.

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''Promise of the Week'' is an article published in [[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]] on 30 december 1900.

About the play [[Sherlock Holmes (play 1900-1901 Olympic Theater)|Sherlock Holmes]] at the ''Olympic Theater'', St. Louis, MO, USA.

== Promise of the Week ==
[[File:st-louis-globe-democrat-1900-12-30-p42-promise-of-the-week.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[St. Louis Globe-Democrat]] (30 december 1900, p. 42)<br><br>WM. GILLETTE AS "SHERLOCK HOLMES" — OLYMPIC.]]

"[[Sherlock Holmes]]," [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Conan Doyle]]'s hero of a thousand difficult problems; the detective who is the ideal of all English readers, has been incarnated by [[William Gillette]] in the play he has made out of [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Doyle]]'s stories, and which will be seen at the Olympic Theater for a week, beginning Monday night. It is said that by lending to [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Doyle]]'s conception all of the actor-author's acknowledged ability and talent of impersonation [[William Gillette|Mr. Gillette]] has created a character that is as real as it is unique, and as unique as it has become popular. The plan ran at the Garrick Theater, New York, for thirty-six consecutive weeks last season, and after a short season in this country is to be taken to Sir Henry Irving's Lyceum Theater, London, for a run. In New York the play became the vogue and [[Sherlock Holmes (play 1899-1900 Garrick Theatre)|Sherlock Holmes]] scored a great success. The action is heightened by a perfection of scenic and lighting effects seldom if ever equaled. Some reviewers have declared that [[William Gillette|Mr. Gillette]] exercises hypnotic influence over his audience, and all who see the play are surprised that the time of presentation seems so short, so absorbed are they. The story of the play is founded on a hitherto unpublished episode in the life of the great detective, showing his connection with the strange case of "Miss Faulkner." At the death of her sister the young woman obtains possession of certain papers and photographs which compromise the scion of a noble house, who, realizing the danger that menaces him through their existence, commissions "[[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]]" to get possession of them. In the meantime, "Miss Faulkner" has fallen into the hands of an unscrupulous man and his wife, who want the papers for blackmailing purposes, and who hold her a prisoner in their London home. Here "[[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]]" finds her and the papers. He falls in love with the young lady and allows her to keep the papers. The blackmailers call to their assistance "[[Professor Moriarty|Prof. Moriarity]]," a "high caliph of crime," who enters into the scheme with great enthusiasm, born of a hatred for "[[Sherlock Holmes|Holmes]]." The chief interest of the play centers in the struggle for supremacy between these past masters.

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