William Gillette To-Night
William Gillette To-Night is an article published in The Cincinnati Enquirer on 7 january 1901.
About the play Sherlock Holmes at the Grand Opera House in Cincinnati, OH (USA).
William Gillette To-Night
William Gillette, whose name is associated with a number of the distinct successes of the past achieved on the local boarde, will make his appearance in Cincinnati to-night at the Grand for the first time in several years. His play, "Sherlock Holmes," is said to be one of the most fascinating vehicles of the decade. Mr. Gillette, who is recognized as a veritable genius in contriving the most thrilling situations from apparently the most commonplace material will appear in what his management is pleased to call a reincarnation of "Sherlock Holmes," he celebrated detective of Dr. Conan Doyle's fiction. The word incarnation has been suggested, it is said, by the fact that Mr. Gillette has completely absorbed the character of Sherlock Holmes, enabling him to give an impersonation in which he lays aside his own individuality absolutely and appears as the cool, analytical, vigilant detective, whose adventures have made him one of the most celebrated personages of recent authorship.
