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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

William Gillette (1853–1937)

Gillette, William. An American actor and playwright; born in Hartford, CT, July 24, 1853; died in 1937. He is the author of several successful plays, in many of which he assumed the leading parts. Among his best-known productions are: ‘The Professor’ (1881); ‘Esmeralda’ (1881), with Mrs. F. H. Burnett; ‘The Private Secretary’ (adapted); ‘Held by the Enemy’ (1886); ‘A Legal Wreck’ (1888); ‘Too Much Johnson’ (1895); ‘Secret Service’ (1896); and ‘Sherlock Holmes.’