William Gillette at the Wieting
William Gillette at the Wieting is an article published in The Sunday Herald (Syracuse) on 29 october 1899.
About the play Sherlock Holmes at the New Wieting Opera House, Syracuse, NY, USA.
William Gillette at the Wieting
WILLIAM GILLETTE. (At the Wieting.)
The dramatization of the world-famed starter "Sherlock Holmes" comes to the Wieting to morrow and Tuesday evenings. The play has written by William Gillette in connection with the gifted novelist, A. Conan Doyle, who has won fame by his brilliant stories of detective life. It is founded on his widely read and most spirited and discussed speeches of "Sherlock Holmes." In the story of the book he opened our new field of literature and introduced new locale, new types and an entire new atmosphere to the world of letters. What A. Conan Doyle did in literature, William Gillette has now done for the stage, and in "Sherlock Holmes," Mr Gillette has returned all the characters so well known, and has been compelled to introduce a love story which he calls "A hitherto unpublished episode in the career of the great detective, showing his connection with the strange case of "Miss Faulkner." The drama is in four acts. The scenes are all in and around London.
Charles Frohman has spared neither time or expense in giving suitable mounting to this play, and after its production to our city it will be taken to the Garrick theater, New York, for all winter's run and will be produced at the Duke of York's theater, London, England, at spring for an indefinite time. A strong company is employed in the presentation of this piece. The principals are: William Gillette, Bruce McRae, Ruben Fax, Harold Heaton, Alfred S. Howard, George Wessels, Ralph Delmore, George Honey, Henry Herman, Thomas McGrath, Elwyn Eaton, Julia Weyms, Henry Chandler, Soldene Powell, Henry McArdle, the Misses Katherine Florence, Jane Thomas, Judith Berolde, Hilda Englund and Kate Ten Eyck.
