The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-11-18

But II was too good chance to secure
advertising for the actress and play to
be missed
Creston Clarke has made an immediate
success with THE Only Way" the rights
to which he secured from Charles Froh-
man at the termination OF that man
ayers contract with Henry Miller Mr..
Clarke is using the entire production
that was seen here when Mr.. Miller pre-
sented the play. and he has engaged a
company that is said 10 be Of unusual
excellence.
Mr.. Clarke and "The Only Way pleased
large audiences at the Amphion Theatre.
Brooklyn. last week. and the press no
tees of thu production highly praised the
individual Eork of Mr. Clarke and Adelaide
Prince.
There are very few people who know
that the Sherlock Holmes" of DR.. A.
Conan Doyle is a living person. and that
the great novelist In giving literary
prominence 20 the world has changed the
scene and the occupation of man we'll
known in Scotland. DR.. Doyle, who was
born in Edinburgh in 1859, naturally be-
came student of Seotland's chief uni
versity. and as he went in for medicine,
he came in contact with Dr. Joseph Bell.
Of the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, VINO
Is the original Sherlock Holmes"
DR.. Bell, who is man of about fifty
five years at present. has been described
by DR.. Doyle himself to be one of the
most scrupulously methodcal workers he
has ever met. He was graduate of Ed
inbursh. and at twenty-five became house
surgeon of the Royal Infirmary, one of
the greatest hospitals in europe. and he
now occupies the post of consulting sur
geon. Dr. Doyle met him when the nostl-
list began his medical career, and a warm
friendship sprans UP between them. II
is said that the DIR. Watson of the
series. and the Sherlock Holmes" Of the
series are the two sides of the same
mans nature. Readers will remember
that DR.. Watson displayed all Of the
kindlier virtues and friendly solicitations
for Sherlock Holmes, and warned him
against his habit of resorting to the uss
of stimulants, and it will be recalled that
Sherlock Holmes was very fond of DR..
Watson. but refused to give up his chozen
career for the kindlier virtues of his
friend. Thus DR.. Doyle has made the enc
man serve, by showing his differe Mt char
acteristics, for the two principal charac-
tiers of his delightful stories which have
charmed SO many readers of contempora-
neous fiction.
One of DIR. Bells axioms which lie al
ways tried to impress upon the students
who studied under his care was that the
greatest possible assistance in d,agno-
sis was had from a careful observation Of
trifies. Little things. which on the sur
face appear to be of no possible value,
he held. ard countless times proved to be
of the utmost Importance in determining
the nature OF an ailment. and the trent
ment to be applied to it. DR.. Doyls him
self has confessed that he was incln ned to
make sport of his teachers care and at
tention to little things, and that his love
of making sport was the real reason for
his studying him SO that he might have
larger fund of incidents wherewith to rid
icule his teacher. DR.. Bell always took
this chatting from his favorite pupil In
good part and invariably made the same
prediction from behind an uplifted finger.
which was: Doyle, you will never come
to any good"