SHERLOCK HOLMES IN IN DUNEDIN.

Otago Witness, Issue 2545, 24 December 1902, Page 57

SHERLOCK HOLMES IN IN DUNEDIN.

Mr J. C. Williamson's next attraction- for his Dunedin patrons will be a visit from his English, American, and Australian dramatic organisation, which commences a Bhort" 12tiights season at the Princess Theatre on Boxing Night, December 25. The repertoire of* the company will include two of the greatest London and American successes — namely, William Gillette's interesting realisation of Sir A. Conan Doyle's famous creation, " Sherlock Holmes," and the great London success "If I Were King," which will be presented for the first time in New Zealand. The opening production of the season will be " Sherlock Holmea," which was recently produced in Australia' at Mr Williamson's Melbourne and Sydney theatres and scored an "instantaneous success, running for no less than six weeks in -Melbourne and eight weeks, in Sydney to crowded houses. No character in modern fiction- has a wider fame than the wonderful detective' created by Conan Doyle, and the marvel -is that the sagacious and redoubtable individual did ,not make his bow over the 'footlights/aome years back. Mr Gillette, the actor-dramatist, 'has selected tlie detective's connection with " The ■Strange Case of Miss Faulkner" as the groundwork of the drama. The actor of .the' piece is. said to be intensely absorbing throughout, and holds the spectator in. a giip from the rise to the fall of the curtain. To produce the drama with all the necessary completeness, which 13 so wel! known a characteristic of Mr J. C. Williamson, a powerful company of dramatic artists has been specially selected in England and America, and is headed by the eminent actor, Mr Cuyler Hastings, who will appear as Sherlock Holmes, the great detective, a3 played by him with success throughout the United States and in Melbourne and Sydney. The other members of the company include Miss May Chevalier, Miss Mabel Lane, Miss Minnie Terry, Miss Nina Herbert, and Miss Julia Merton, Messrs Hamilton Stewart, J. B. Atholwood, Edmund Gwenn, F. Lumsden-Hare, Frank Hollins, Augustus Glover, Thomas Lloyd, Stanley Walpole, Paul Scardon, Dale Revenall, and many others.