Revival

In the days when Paris was lit by gas instead of neon lights and Lithographer Honore Daumier was discovering that Louis Philippe, "the Bourgeois Monarch," had a head like a pear, there lived a free & easy young woman of striking beauty named Marie Duplessis. A series of shocking excesses brought about her death at 24. In 1849, Dumas fils contributed to the already considerable body of legend surrounding Mlle Duplessis' career by writing a play, La Dame aux Camelias, in which the heroine, subsequently impersonated by Duse, Bernhardt, Le Gallienne et al, is represented as a wan, coughing angel-on-earth who gives up her life for a pure love. No more wan, pale or pathetic lady of the camellias ever crept the boards than Lillian Gish, who appeared last week in Manhattan in the Dumas classic.

Folk who are decorating their homes with Victorian antiquities this autumn, in accordance with the mode, would do well to go and see the decorations which Robert Edmond Jones has provided for Camille. Producer Delos Chappell & wife, who first presented the revival at Central City, Colo. this summer (TIME, Aug. 1), have arranged their own translation of the script without, apparently, distinguishing it from previous translations. After four weeks in Manhattan, Camille, Miss Gish and the scenery will take to the road.

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