Gillette
WILLIAM, an American playwright; born in Hartford, Conn., July 24, 1855. He is the author of several successful plays, in many of which he has assumed the leading parts.
Among his best-known productions are: "The Professor" (1881); "Esmeralda" (1881), with Mrs. F. H. Burnett; "The Private Secretary"; "Held by the Enemy" (1886); "A Legal Wreck" (1888); "Too Much Johnson" (1895); and "Secret Service" (1896); "Sherlock Holmes"; "Clarice"; etc. "Sherlock