Conan Doyle's Play
Conan Doyle's Play is an article published in The Sacramento Bee on 8 july 1899.
The article is about the Arthur Conan Doyle's play : Halves.
Conan Doyle's Play
Conan Doyle's new comedy, "Halves," which was lately produced in London, has been welcomed in some quarters as the beginning of a revolt against plays of the "The Gay Lord Quex" and "The Tyranny of Tears" type. It is eminently fitted for the young person of 15 or so, and will do no harm to her mother. This play leads one to think, observes a writer in an exchange, that Mr. Doyle's wrath at the literary critics for accepting seriously his last story, "A Duet, With an Occasional Chorus," was not wholly genuine. The distinguished author, it will be remembered, said that he intended his little tale to be in the nature of a satire, and he did not relish the idea of the public taking it seriously and proclaiming him to be a new prophet who would lead literature from the devious paths of the problem back to the cleanliness and simplicity of "Paul and Virginia." Perhaps It is his desire to minister to the wants of the young person only on the stage.
