The play is revived four more times by 1915, each time with Gillette in the lead. Gillette also stars as the famous detective. June, 1900: William Gillette and Arthur Conan Doyle’s play Sherlock Holmes finally closes, after a popular run of 256 performances. The production is permitted to resume on April 7th and has several revivals. Objections stem from the sexual overtones of actor Hamilton Revelle carrying Nethersole upstairs to an unseen bedroom. On the same night, Sapho, opens at Wallack’s Theatre and causes enough stir that the police close the production a month later and bring both the show’s producer and the star, Olga Nethersole, to trial. February 5, 1900: Broadway audiences at the Madison Square Garden Theatre are scandalized by the play Coralie & Company, Dressmakers, in which a white man is discovered in bed with a black woman.
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