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Show SHERLOCK HOLMES. Mr. Sumner has very nearly cornered starring " honors at the Garrick this week with his excellent characterization of Moriarty, the London thief king, who figures prominently in the Gillette Gil-lette play "Sherlock Holmes," which, since Monday Mon-day last, has introduced several thousand out-of-town playgoers to an entirely new set of thrills. In fact, by the time the action of the play has reached the scene in the gas chamber in which Moriarty puts his victims to sleep, the atmosphere atmos-phere of the auditorium has been so charged with high voltage tension and the excited Warnings of the spectators in their efforts to inform Miss Clifton Clif-ton of her danger before the deadly fumes get in their work, that considerable difficulty has been experienced in hearing the players in the denouements denoue-ments in the drama. . The production of Wm. Gillette's fine old thriller has furnished conclusive evidence that the Garrick company is one of the finest and most capable stock organizations ever seen in the west. Their presentation of "Sherlock Holmes" oxcclls in the fincscc of its characterizations, tho smoothness of the production and in its staging. " |
