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he Vlays With Jawfywl in Dumas' "Qatnille"

Lambda's Elizabeth Wilbur is adding Elizabeth Wilbur (A), wore this lovely velvet gown in "Camille." Here she is seen
with John Davidson, Frederick Sullivan, and Jane Cowl in this great play by that
further laurels to her dramatic crown
master of romance, Alexandre Dumas, one of the greatest of the great.
EL I Z A B E T H W I L B U R (A '27), a young actress of no mean ability
of whom you have read before, has added another short season final week at the Curran Theater with tonight's performance of 'Camille.'
of note to a career which seems filled with interesting episodes. The distinguished actress has added another laurel to her wreath by her
In her own words she puts it very simply. "The short season with Miss infinitely tender and beautiful impersonation of Alexandre Dumas' un-
happy fiUc de j0ie ]yjjss Cowl commands tears at will but in the last act
Cowl was great fun. She's such a' the simplicity and beauty of Marguerite's death is agonizing to the
lovely person. I hope to play with spectator. Here the actress does some of the finest acting of her career.
her again."
"Belasco and Curran's production of the play is in many respects the
The play was Alexandre Du- nr>est it has ever had. The settings have solid walls and practical doors,
mas' "Camille." The theatre was
the Curran in San Francisco. The the furnishings are of the period, the Third Empire in France."
season was wholly successful. The
theatre was packed. The version
used was by William Keighley.
"It is sharper and crisper than
former adaptations, and has been
modernized in the sense of short
speeches and speeding up the ac-
tion. The production is the most
splendid the old play has ever
had." Thus heralded the San
Francisco Chronicle.

Among the cast were to
be found Gilbert Roland
as Armand Duval; Walter
Kingsford; Lewis Martin;
Montague Shaw; John Dav-
idson; Jessie Ralph; Florence
Aberle; Maren Evenson and
some thirty others.

During the last week of
the play, the Chronicle says,
"Jane Cowl enters on her