Broad-Street Theatre
Broad-Street Theatre is an article published in The Times (Philadelphia) on 27 january 1901.
About the play Sherlock Holmes at Broad Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Broad-Street Theatre
"Sherlock Holmes," a melodrama by William Gillette, is announced to be acted for the first time in this city, Mr. Gillette and his company to appear in interpretation. As the title indicates, the play concerns the protagonist of A. Canon Doyle's well-known storiettes in two series, "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" and "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes." Doctor Doyle struck a new note in character-drawing in the inductive and deductive detective in this fiction; and many are the readers who have been thrilled by "A Study in Scarlet," "The Sign of the Four," and others of the series. For the purposes of the play. It is understood, Mr. Gillette has been compelled to invent a new episode — or, rather, series of episodes — and to put Holmes into objective action as the central figure. His running-down of the perpetrators of a big diamond-robbery is marked by a great deal of perlious personal adventure; and he has as his chief opponent the conscienceless Professor Moriarity, to whom, in several of the stories, Holmes gave credit for dangerous rivalry in astuteness and nerve. A love-interest has been provided the detective wooing and winning Miss Faulkner, who has been of a great deal of use to him in his successful sleuthing of the thieves. It is to be supposed that Gillette's peculiar methods as a player should find opportunity for effective expression as Holmes. Gotham theatre-goers must have thought so, last season: for the play ran for months to what is declared to have been a succession of capacity-testing audiences. Maude Fealy, Olive Oliver, Ralph Delmore, Reuben Fax, and Frederick Truesdell are among those announced for Mr. Gillette's support. A matinee of "Sherlock Holmes" will be given on Saturday afternoon.
