Humorous Melodrama at the Olympic
Humorous Melodrama at the Olympic is an article published in The St. Louis Republic on 1 january 1901.
About the play Sherlock Holmes at the Olympic Theater, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Humorous Melodrama at the Olympic
Mr. William Gillette, in his comic melodrama of "Sherlock Holmes," entertained a very large New Year Eve audience at the Olympic Theater last night. "Sherlock Holmes" is, first of all, a melodrama, but you mustn't take it seriously.
Sometimes, however, you may forget yourself for an instant, forget that it is all a literary joke set to lights and curtains and trap doors, and so forgetting, you may grip the sides of your chair and wonder how in the world the suave hero will ever get out of the scrape he is in. Then, by a series of maneuvers that easily surpasses anything ever done by a Havlin or Deadwood Dick hero, your Mr. Sherlock Holmes has smashed the lamp, grasped the fair, young girl in his arms, and, defying half a dozen men who murder as a pastime, he has dashed into the open and left his enemies locked in their own trap. Whew! but it's lively.
