'CAMILLE’

Evening Star, Issue 16225, 21 September 1916, Page 2

'CAMILLE’

r What regular theatre-goer doe? not! snow the story' of Camille, one of the i most human and affective stories over I Staged ? It has been compared with East ! Lynn, bub is less melodramatic, though! iione the less powerful in its appeal. | Camille, or Marguerite Gantier to give her | her real name, was a passionate woman ; who allowed her passions to order lier life i until her health was undermined. Then, I as to most women at some time, came i her period of real love and happiness, but! bringing in her case sadness and death i guickly in its trail. For Armand’s (her i ; lover) father demands that she shall give : aim up, and for love of Armand and the \ sake ox his and. his sister’s good name she i consents to sacrifice herseh and returns ! (° the. old life.- Many dramatic scenes! , , tollow, the most intense being when | Armand endeavors to persuade Camille to! return to him, but she refuses. Then j. comes the accusation from Armand that; die loves the other man, de Varvilie, and I 1 . the quarrel and duel between the two j men._ Finally the pathetic death of I Camille from consumption brought on by j aer mode of living, brings the story to a I v dose>. Camille, it may be mentioned, was j written for the great Bernhardt, and it i . ■ remained in her repertoire to the last. In . this film representation, which will be | screened to-morrow at the Empire Theatre, 1 the name part is taken by the celebrated ! \ actress Clara Kimball Young, and it is j . said that she, with Paul Cappelani as' ; Armand, lifts the play- to a high artistic i level. A comedy which is credited with i being above_the average is ‘Oh! for the Lite of a Fireman,’ - which will form the principal support to the big-film. This tells of the amusing experiences of one Clarence Montmprency, an effeminate sailor who suddenly takes a liking for the life of a fireman arid adopts it.