"Sherlock Holmes" on the stage
"Sherlock Holmes" on the stage is an article published in The Daily Record & Mail on 19 april 1902.
About the play Sherlock Holmes at Theatre Royal, Glasgow, UK.
"Sherlock Holmes" on the stage
An important theatrical engagement begins at the Theatre Royal on Monday night when Mr. William Gillette will make his first appearance in Glasgow, and the much-talked of play, "Sherlock Holmes," will also be seen for the first time.
Mr. Gillette, who is perhaps the leading American actor of his day, is also a dramatist of established standing, for not only did he write "Sherlock Holmes," using the personality of the detective in a story of his own creation, but he has nearly a score of successful plays to his credit, among them "Heid by the Enemy," "Too much Johnson," ""Because she loved him so," "All the comforts of home," and the well-known "Secret Service."
"Sherlock Holmes," which for the past eight months has been running at the London Lyceum, is described as a hitherto unpublished incident in the career of the great detective, showing his strange connection with Miss Faulkner, and it has been so constructed as to show within the limits of an evening's entertainment all the Conan Doyle stories, bringing in many of the characters which are so familiar to readers of contemporaneous fiction.
