the plat is by no means an easy task for amateurs, and the members of the Grammar School Forme' Pupils' Club, who last night tackled it - most pluckily, let it be said - must have found many difficulties to overcome ere it could be brought to public performance. Contrary to ordinary experience, the dramatisation of this gruesome story has been accomplished at a minimum of loss in clearness and lucidity, and in some points the playwright has improved upon the conception of the novelist, in the vivid realism introduced in the stage representation.īut though the work reads smoothly. In the whole realm of detective adventure, in which Sherlock Mimes has teens the central living" figure, no fictitious undertaking his ever so enthralled the reading public as Sir Conan Doyle's " Speckled Band." The mystery that pervades the story engrosses the reader, and holds him fettered till the terrible denouement. Mr Scott Wilson, engaged to Enid's Sister. Mrs Staunton, Housekeeper to Dr Rylott.Dr Grimesby Rylott, a retired Anglo-Indian Surgeon, owner of Stoke Moran Manor.Mr Sherlock Holmes, the great Detective.FINE PERFORMANCE BY F.P.'s OF GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
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