Hyperion Theater (article 22 october 1900)
Hyperion Theater is an article published in the New Haven Morning Journal and Courier on 22 october 1900.
The play was Sherlock Holmes.
Article
"Sherlock Holmes," the creation of the English novelist, Dr. A. Conan Doyle and William Gillette, comes to the Hyperion theater to-morrow night for an engagement of two evenings. This will be William Gillette's first appearance in his new play in this city. The fame of "Sherlock Holmes" as a play has spread all over this country. For thirty-six week last season capacity audiences filled the Garrick theater, New York, at every performance, to witness this latest triumph in stage craft. The production will be on the same large scale as was seen at the Garrick, with all of the startling stage accessories. Seats now on sale. Prices $2, $1.50, $1, 75c.
At the Hyperion on next Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings and Saturday afternoon the latest vaudeville farce, "The Star and Garter," will be presented and it will be the means of introducing the very latest Parisian importation, the Agoust family of comedians, pantomimists and jugglers. The piece is in three acts, the first of which take place in the dressmaking establishment of Madame Piquet in New York city. The second in "The Star and Garter," from which the play takes its name, and the third at Morris Park Race Track. It le said to be replete with music, fun and frivolity. Prominent in Mr. McKee's comedy company are Otis Harlan, Joseph Coyne, John G. Sparks, William Blaisdell, Marle Cahill, Mae Lowrey, Mamie Gilroy, Nellle Lynch and a full compliment of chorus girls. Seats now on sale. Prices, $1.50, $1, 75c.
