Gillette took it on a lengthy American tour, then to England in the fall of 1901 where it was equally popular. (In the 1935 edition Conan Doyle received only a source credit.) Sherlock Holmes opened at ManhattanвЂ™s Garrick Theater Novemand ran for 256 performances. GilletteвЂ™s revision left little of the original script but he credited Conan Doyle as co-author. When Gillette later pressed him on this, Conan Doyle replied, вЂњYou may marry him, murder him, or do anything you like to himвЂќ ( Memories and Adventures, 97). The author agreed, stipulating only that there be no love interest. Gillette read Conan DoyleвЂ™s script and asked permission to revise it. He had major successes in America and England with his two Civil War plays, Held by the EnemyВ (1886) and Secret ServiceВ (1896). In 1881 he appeared in the title role of his own play, The Professor. Gillette (1853-1937), born in Hartford, Connecticut, made his acting debut in 1875 and was for many decades one of AmericaвЂ™s greatest stars. Frohman showed the script to actor-playwright William Gillette ( William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes,В 286). His agent, realizing the playвЂ™s potential, sent it to American producer Charles Frohman who had inquired earlier about basing a play on Holmes. By then he began to have reservations about putting Holmes on the stage at all, worried that it might draw attention to вЂњmy weaker work which has unduly obscured my betterвЂќ ( The Adventures of Arthur Conan Doyle,В Russell Miller, 199). Tree expressed interest but requested a massive rewrite so he could play both Holmes and Moriarty ( William Gillette, America's Sherlock Holmes,В Henry Zecher, 285.) Conan Doyle next offered it to Irving, who declined. He wrote the first version of Sherlock HolmesВ in 1897 and sent it to Herbert Beerbohm Tree, another great English actor-manager. Conan DoyleвЂ™s greatest stage success by far was another collaboration based on his most memorable character. The great actor-manager Henry Irving produced The Story of WaterlooВ (1894) and kept it in his repertory for many years ( Sherlock Holmes on the Stage,В Amnon Kabatchnik, x).

It had little success, but some of his other plays (written on his own) were successful. Barrie (author of Peter Pan) on an operetta. Thereafter he found time to write Sherlock Holmes stories as well as his preferred work.Д¬onan Doyle had begun writing drama in 1885 ( Memories and Adventures, 225). Public demand, The StrandВ publisherвЂ™s entreaties, and economic needs led him to write The Hound of the BaskervillesВ (1901). His other stories and novels were successful though not on the same scale as the Holmes tales.

Preferring to write more serious work, he killed off Holmes in вЂњThe Final ProblemвЂќ (1893). That same year began his association with The Strand Magazine, which published fifty-eight other Holmes adventures, the last collection appearing in 1927. In 1891, while recovering from a nearly fatal bout of influenza, Conan Doyle decided to give up his only modestly successful medical practice for a writing career ( Memories and Adventures, Arthur Conan Doyle, 91).

It was popular, and he was commissioned by the American publication, LippincottвЂ™s Magazine,В to write another Holmes story, The Sign of the Four (1890). A Study in Scarlet, the novel that introduced Sherlock Holmes, appeared in 1887. To earn income while studying medicine at Edinburgh University, he began writing short stories, medical articles and articles on photography. As a student he wrote verses, was a popular story-teller among his classmates, and edited the school newspaper. His literary talent was evident early on. ( The Return of Sherlock Holmes.В This is just one small example of the continuing re-invention of Conan DoyleвЂ™s imperishable creation.ДЄrthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859вЂ“1930) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland. That was tweaked into its iconic form in ParamountвЂ™s 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes (starring Clive Brook). He later added вЂњElementary my dear fellow!вЂќ ( Sherlock Holmes,В William Gillette, 82). It began as вЂњElementary! The childвЂ™s play of deduction!вЂќ in the play Sherlock Holmes, by William Gillette ( Sherlock Holmes: The Published Apocrypha, Jack Tracy, Ed. вЂњElementary, my dear Watson!вЂќ That famous line is not by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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