The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-10-01

T HE bill at the Garrick this week
is TO be William Gillette S dram
atization of one of the most pop
uler Of all che A. Conan Doyle
stories on Sherlock Holmes. The play
has ranked with the foremost American
dramas these many years and the week
at the Garr,ck furnishes the first oppor-
tunity Salt Laker5 have had to witness
the production in several seasons,
"Sherlock Holmes - is too we'll known
TO warrant extended mention. The sto'
ries that have centcred on the work OF
the author S fiction. detective have rnng
so true TO life and have carried so great
fascination in their mysteries ahG
plots and the doings and undoings oil
criminals that they have been more
widely read by the American pubic
than any other class of sbort-story hc'
ton it was William Gillette who frst
conceived the idea OF staging the Doyle
detective and, taking a hitherto unpub'
lished story OF the author s, he drama
tiZed it so realistically that lt AT once
carried Gillette to IN even higher pm
nacle of fame than had been his for
tune previously.
The story hinges on the existence OF
q number OF letters and photographs
which prove a liaiscn between q young
English lord and the oldest Faulkner
glrl The latter is dead at the opening
of the play and the papers are in tho
keeping of his sister. Alice Faulkner
and Mrs. Faulkner. Madge and James
Larrabee, brother and sister and two
desperate criminals, have succeeded III
getting into the good graces of Alice
and her mother, with a view Of OBJ
tanning the papers and blackmaiing the
Englishman. Things have progressed to
are virtually prisoners in the Larrabee
home, with the man using force and
brutality on the girl TO force her to dis
close the hiding place OF the papers.
And then enters Sherlock Holmes,
crime investigator. He has been re
tanned to secure the papers for the ricn
young Englishman, and before he has
been on the case long he learns that
MoriarIy, head of notorious band OF
London thieves. is interested in getting
tho papers also, but, more to the point,
prime 'pally engaged in trying to take
! his life
From the opening scene in the Lar
rabee homo the second act changes to
the underground office of Moriarty. and
here Will be found a gruesomely realistic
stage setting The great gloomy cham
Der under ground, with its system Of
secret signals, its secret doors and great
barred passage. ways to the outer world,
and then the types Of criminals who file
in one after another with their reports
| of murders robberies and other crimes
| There is planned the death of Sherlock
| Holmes, the recovery of the papers and
the triumph of Moriarty over the law
Act three takes place in the gas cham.
ber maintained by Moriartv for the
quick numbering of his victims. and
the stage settings will show the murder
trap in all its vivid details
| The fourth act takes place in the
| apartments of Dr. Watson, Holmes g
| bosom friend, where with the knowledge
that his own home is being burned TO
the ground, Holmes decoys and captures
Moriarty and succeeds in inducing Alice
to restore the papers to their owner
while the act closes with Holmes and
the girl in each other IS arms,
Mr. Parker will play the detective,
Holmes; Miss Clifton plays Alice Faulk-
ner, and Miss Dills, Madge Larrabee
| Mr.. Seymour is to be seen as her broth.
er, and Mr. Sumner as Moriarty. Miss
Ross plays Mrs, Faulkner, and Louis
| Craig. DR.. Watson. Helen Collier will
| play Terese and Neil Pratt. Billy The