Today we have a brand new entry in the "Howard Ostrom Holmes and Watson Autograph Collection" .
James J. Corbett (1866 - 1933), World Heavyweight Boxing Champion "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan, had a secondary career has an actor.
He portrayed Sherlock Holmes in the burlesque show, "Round New York in Eighty Minutes" (Nov. 11, 1899 - Dec. 24, 1899).
The featured comic skit, a satire of William Gillette, entitled "The Remarkable Pipe Dream of Mr. Sherlock Holmes", starred Corbett as the Great Detective, and according to a biography by Armond Fields, he "apparently played his role in such an outrageous fashion as to be considered exceptionally amusing".
Corbertt also appeared on stage as Raffles in "The Burgler and The Lady" (1903), in which he outsmarts a Sherlock Holmes played by Arthur V. Johnson.
James J. Corbett (1866 - 1933), World Heavyweight Boxing Champion "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, best known as the man who defeated the great John L. Sullivan, had a secondary career has an actor.
He portrayed Sherlock Holmes in the burlesque show, "Round New York in Eighty Minutes" (Nov. 11, 1899 - Dec. 24, 1899).
The featured comic skit, a satire of William Gillette, entitled "The Remarkable Pipe Dream of Mr. Sherlock Holmes", starred Corbett as the Great Detective, and according to a biography by Armond Fields, he "apparently played his role in such an outrageous fashion as to be considered exceptionally amusing".
Corbertt also appeared on stage as Raffles in "The Burgler and The Lady" (1903), in which he outsmarts a Sherlock Holmes played by Arthur V. Johnson.
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