The Alvin Theater (article 25 november 1900)
The Alvin Theater is an article published in The Pittsburg Post on 25 november 1900.
About the play Sherlock Holmes at Alvin Theater, Pittsburgh, PA (USA).
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William Gillette as "Sherlock Holmes."
The Alvin Theater
Detective work as pictured in story books has to thousands of people seemed the most fascinating occupation that a man could indulge in. A new sensation was provided by Dr. Conan Doyle when he loomed up on the literary horizon with his pictures of Sherlock Holmes. William Gillette, when he put on the detective, made him a personage in the dramatic world, and by virtue of being incarnated by Mr. Gillette himself, he took a front rank among stage heroes. With his remarkable talent Mr. Gillette, it is said, has concentrated the whole character of Dr. Doyle's hero into the play. Local theater patrons will be able to judge for themselves, for on Monday night William Gillette appears in "Sherlock Holmes" at the Alvin.
