The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-08

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him because ne Is rich and HAS
achieved distinction.
I Ramona DE Breyannes, an insipl'
I product OF the Paris boulevards
crosses the lives OF these two, lie Is
selfish and designing. He controls the
woman. She admires him as man
OF the world"
Against this trio as a background Us
thrown Camille dc Lancay, cousin oil
the wife. She has married unwisely
Her husband has died and by his Wall
has left a fortune, given him by
( Camille. TO his mistress. Seeking u
( break the will. she comes To the w0
man and the man for legal counsel.
4 I'm her, the husband finds the sym
pathy denied him by his wife. lie
turns TO her She repulses him, al
/ though she, too. loves.
There comes an eventful night. The
man has gone TO the city, where fresh
political triumphs await him. Camille
De Lancay has decided TO go from the
mans home. She writes letter OF
farewell and comes TO the music room
to leave IL for the man. While there
I'm the dark, the weak woman allows
De Brevannes TO enter. Camille sees
and understands.
The man returns Unexpectedly.
Camille uses every womanly artifice
TO keep him from going TO his wife
and thus discovering her duplicity
But he has been tricked by political
enemies ard he must tell the woman
OF his failure. In desperation. Camille
stays him by confessing her love 10
him rs De Brevannes passes out OF
the window he had entered.
To save the weak woman, she had
confessed love she had voweu 10
keep always within herself. The sit
uation is compromising and leads TO
conflict. De Brevannes, self-centored,
arouses the latent jealousy o. the
wife. Camille storms and threatens
10 tell the man everything, but in the
end holds her counsel and fees from
his presence.
The man is finally apprised OF the
real state of affairs. by THEODORE
Canuche, his old and trusted friend.
The announcement comes there. Ca
mile tells the man she must go to
America. He says he will como TO
her when he can stay no longer and
she promises to be waiting az the
pier.
The playwright leaves US at that
point where there seems nothing in
the way OF the future happiness of
the man, but divorce from the weak
woman, but why worry over such a
trifie?
Out of this unhappy story OF do
nestle infelicity, Mr.. Bertor has
woven a rather appealing play. in
vesting it with a number of really
strong situations and divorcing from
It the salacious matter that is usual
ly an accompaniment to themes Decu-
liar to the French dramatists.
But, after all, IL Is not altogether
satisfactory to have laid bare wo-
mans faithlessness and In the end
one wonders how such a play serves
dramatic literature.
The role of Camille De Lancay
affords Miss Ellington ample scope
for the display of her emotional pow
ers. She has a voice OF magnetic
quality, and one that compells her
auditors always.
AS Adrien Serval, Edward r. Nav
son is all that could be desired The
wife. is In the capable hands OF Miss
Sybil Hammersley. David Edwin gives
US a unique character study OF the
faithful Canuche and Charles Swick-
ard is good as the scheming De Bre-
vannes. Other roles are capably in
terpreted by Cyril Courtney and Dan
lei Lyons.
The engagement continues Tuesday
and Wednesday, with a matinee, We'd
nesday.