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SUCCESS in college dramatics, Guest Artist for Herbert Hoover, leads
with Marjorie Rambeau, and a New York contract! Such is the s
career of Elizabeth Wilbur (Lambda '27), who is making a name for n
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Beginning her dramatic career in the summer of 1924 at Stanford h
she played a lead in nearly all the campus productions until her graduation a
three years later. A t this time she was considered the cleverest non- u
professional woman who had ever appeared on the Stanford stage. Indeed e
she was one of the few players who was regarded as "talented" by the
faculty and more mature members of the audience. In addition, she o
has the distinction of having played opposite Gordon Davis, Stanford's
Dramatic Coach, for three years;

I t is a singular honor to be asked to return as Guest Artist during the
summer quarter, and last year Elizabeth was asked to return and play
the lead in "The Queen's Husband" opposite Gordon Davis. This play
was such a success that it led to more fame because they were asked
to repeat the performance for Herbert Hoover.

For the past two years Miss Wilbur has been on the professional
stage both in the East and West, and wherever she appeared she has
been praised highly even by the more conservative critics. I ' m sure