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	[[File:dayton-daily-news-1901-01-19-p10-victoria-theater.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|right\|[[Dayton Daily News]] (19 january 1901, p. 10)<br><br>~~[[William Gillette\|~~WILLIAM GILLETTE]], As Sherlock Holmes, at the Victoria, Tuesday, Jan. 22.]]		[[File:dayton-daily-news-1901-01-19-p10-victoria-theater.jpg\|thumb\|250px\|right\|[[Dayton Daily News]] (19 january 1901, p. 10)<br><br>WILLIAM GILLETTE, As Sherlock Holmes, at the Victoria, Tuesday, Jan. 22.]]

	Tuesday, January 22. — [[William Gillette]] in "[[Sherlock Holmes (play 1901 Victoria Theater)\|Sherlock Holmes]]." — There is a surprise in stage realism in store for local theater patrons. On Tuesday night at the Victoria theater, [[William Gillette]] will appear in his greatest success, "[[Sherlock Holmes (play 1901 Victoria Theater)\|Sherlock Holmes]]." It is in this play, and it will be at the hands of [[William Gillette]] that this surprise will come. Founded on the delightful series of detective stories written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. A. Conan Doyle]], [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] has written a drama in four acts, which has been declared to be beyond question, the greatest masterpiece of stage realism ever seen in any theater. [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] has taken that great master of deduction, "[[Sherlock Holmes]]," and incarnated him to the physical eye in a manner which allows the theater patrons to see this great detective in the flesh. He not only exhibits his method of working, but shoes his manner of thinking and his personal diosyncrasies in a way which makes the character of "[[Sherlock Holmes]]" one of the most fascinating characters ever seen on any stage. With apparent ease, and yet for the best possible reasons, he shows the detective as analyzing the features of a "case" in much the same manner as Agassiz would the bone of a fish. It is needless to say, that the scenic environment of [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]]'s play is all that modern stage craft can provide.		Tuesday, January 22. — [[William Gillette]] in "[[Sherlock Holmes (play 1901 Victoria Theater)\|Sherlock Holmes]]." — There is a surprise in stage realism in store for local theater patrons. On Tuesday night at the Victoria theater, [[William Gillette]] will appear in his greatest success, "[[Sherlock Holmes (play 1901 Victoria Theater)\|Sherlock Holmes]]." It is in this play, and it will be at the hands of [[William Gillette]] that this surprise will come. Founded on the delightful series of detective stories written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle\|Dr. A. Conan Doyle]], [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] has written a drama in four acts, which has been declared to be beyond question, the greatest masterpiece of stage realism ever seen in any theater. [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]] has taken that great master of deduction, "[[Sherlock Holmes]]," and incarnated him to the physical eye in a manner which allows the theater patrons to see this great detective in the flesh. He not only exhibits his method of working, but shoes his manner of thinking and his personal diosyncrasies in a way which makes the character of "[[Sherlock Holmes]]" one of the most fascinating characters ever seen on any stage. With apparent ease, and yet for the best possible reasons, he shows the detective as analyzing the features of a "case" in much the same manner as Agassiz would the bone of a fish. It is needless to say, that the scenic environment of [[William Gillette\|Mr. Gillette]]'s play is all that modern stage craft can provide.

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''Victoria Theater — William Gillette'' is an article published in the [[Dayton Daily News]] on 19 january 1901.

About the play [[Sherlock Holmes (play 1901 Victoria Theater)|Sherlock Holmes]] at ''Victoria Theater'', Dayton, OH, USA.

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[[File:dayton-daily-news-1901-01-19-p10-victoria-theater.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[Dayton Daily News]] (19 january 1901, p. 10)<br><br>[[William Gillette|WILLIAM GILLETTE]], As Sherlock Holmes, at the Victoria, Tuesday, Jan. 22.]]

Tuesday, January 22. — [[William Gillette]] in "[[Sherlock Holmes (play 1901 Victoria Theater)|Sherlock Holmes]]." — There is a surprise in stage realism in store for local theater patrons. On Tuesday night at the Victoria theater, [[William Gillette]] will appear in his greatest success, "[[Sherlock Holmes (play 1901 Victoria Theater)|Sherlock Holmes]]." It is in this play, and it will be at the hands of [[William Gillette]] that this surprise will come. Founded on the delightful series of detective stories written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. A. Conan Doyle]], [[William Gillette|Mr. Gillette]] has written a drama in four acts, which has been declared to be beyond question, the greatest masterpiece of stage realism ever seen in any theater. [[William Gillette|Mr. Gillette]] has taken that great master of deduction, "[[Sherlock Holmes]]," and incarnated him to the physical eye in a manner which allows the theater patrons to see this great detective in the flesh. He not only exhibits his method of working, but shoes his manner of thinking and his personal diosyncrasies in a way which makes the character of "[[Sherlock Holmes]]" one of the most fascinating characters ever seen on any stage. With apparent ease, and yet for the best possible reasons, he shows the detective as analyzing the features of a "case" in much the same manner as Agassiz would the bone of a fish. It is needless to say, that the scenic environment of [[William Gillette|Mr. Gillette]]'s play is all that modern stage craft can provide.

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