Victoria Theater — William Gillette
Victoria Theater — William Gillette is an article published in the Dayton Daily News on 19 january 1901.
About the play Sherlock Holmes at Victoria Theater, Dayton, OH, USA.
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WILLIAM GILLETTE, As Sherlock Holmes, at the Victoria, Tuesday, Jan. 22.
Tuesday, January 22. — William Gillette in "Sherlock Holmes." — There is a surprise in stage realism in store for local theater patrons. On Tuesday night at the Victoria theater, William Gillette will appear in his greatest success, "Sherlock Holmes." It is in this play, and it will be at the hands of William Gillette that this surprise will come. Founded on the delightful series of detective stories written by Dr. A. Conan Doyle, Mr. Gillette has written a drama in four acts, which has been declared to be beyond question, the greatest masterpiece of stage realism ever seen in any theater. Mr. Gillette has taken that great master of deduction, "Sherlock Holmes," and incarnated him to the physical eye in a manner which allows the theater patrons to see this great detective in the flesh. He not only exhibits his method of working, but shoes his manner of thinking and his personal diosyncrasies in a way which makes the character of "Sherlock Holmes" one of the most fascinating characters ever seen on any stage. With apparent ease, and yet for the best possible reasons, he shows the detective as analyzing the features of a "case" in much the same manner as Agassiz would the bone of a fish. It is needless to say, that the scenic environment of Mr. Gillette's play is all that modern stage craft can provide.
