Sherlock Holmes (play 1899 The Nesbitt Theatre)
From The Arthur Conan Doyle Encyclopedia
Sherlock Holmes is a play in 4 acts written by William Gillette and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, arranged by Charles Frohman, performed on 3 november 1899 at The Nesbitt Theater in Wilkes-Barre, NY (USA).
The ad mentioned : "Being a hitherto unpublished episode in the career of the great detective, and showing his connection with the strange case of Miss Faulkner. Introducing to the stage for the first time Dr. Conan Doyle's famous character of Sherlock Holmes.
Cast
- Sherlock Holmes : William Gillette
Not mentioned, but the cast was probably the same than in Rochester:
- Doctor Watson : Bruce McRae
- John Forman : Reuben Fax
- Sir Edward Leighton : Harold Heaton
- Count Von Stahlburg : Alfred S. Howard
- Professor Moriarty : George Wessells
- James Larrabee : Ralph Delmore
- Sidney Prince : George Honey
- Alfred Bassick : Henry Herrman
- Jim Craigin : Thomas McGrath
- Thomas Leary : Elwyn Eaton
- "Lightfoot" McTague : Julius Weyms
- John : Henry S. Chandler
- Parsons : Soldene Powell
- Billy : Henry McArdle
- Alice Faulkner : Katherine Florence
- Mrs. Faulkner : Jane Thomas
- Madge Larrabee : Judith Berolde
- Thérèse : Hilda Englund
- Mrs. Smeedley : Kate Ten Eyck
