CAMILLE
or
THE FATE OF COQUETTE
founded on the play by
ALEXANDER DUMAS fils
DUMAS --- master word-painter of the human
emotions --- burnt the midnight oil to
guide us a little, with his mighty pen,
on the Road of life.
His inspired pen dealt out to us --- even
as the player deals out cards --- all the
elements that control the Destiny of Man.
Amongst which.......
LOVE...........
HATE..........
DESPAIR..........
ADULTERY.......
GREED...............
MOTHERHOOD.........
All these --- and more --- the great Dumas
graved in men's hearts forever and forever
in the bitter-sweet story of CAMILLE.
Butt let us linger no longer at the
threshold --- let us knock --- and
enter the magic door.......
Camille --- a lonely little flower from
Mnilmontant --- finds her way to the
Great City beyond the sea.
Footsore and weary --- she trods on ---
until.......
.......friendly Night clasps her to her
bosom. Camille has found the City of
her Dreams.
An hour later --- rested from her long
journey --- Camille finds herself
among fast friends.
"Come, come, Camille! You must join us
--- for this is our birthday!"
END OF PART ONE
Gas-House Charlis --- proprietor of the
exclusive speakeasy in which our little
lost lamb is welcomed --- surveys his
guests.
Nan --- sweetie to the President of the
United States of America.
Mr. X --- a ruined archeologist.
August Peters --- a Prohibition agent.
The Earl of Idaho --- a low character.
Alice Brown --- a virgin.
Kissy --- President of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Radavanni --- an international crook.
A mysterious stranger, called
The Weasel.
Olga Petroff --- bootlegger to the White
House.
Dou-Dou-Dou --- the Mayor of Chicago
Jose-Maria de la Mancha y Zaragosa ---
a toreador.
Angela Hemingway --- a Colonel of the
Salvation Army.
Abd-el-Hammam --- a white slave trader.
Grand Duke Michael --- a Grand Duke.
Madge --- a simple child of Mature.
Her eye.
Andrew Volstead --- author of "The
National Prohibition Act", and other
literary successes.
The Shads of Rudolph Valentino
Estelle --- a boarding-house keeper.
Arthur --- barkeeper of Small's Paradise.
Mike --- the bookkeeper, cashier,
entertainer and piano-player at
Gas-house Charlie's.
Les Fcheux
Olympe --- Camille's close friend.
All --- our heroine's companions on that
night of innocent pleasure.
END OF PART TWO
But --- with the dawn --- came the Count
de Varville --- wastrel, degenerate, arch-
rou, wolf in sheep's clothhing, despoiler
of maidenhood.
Insinuating himself into the marry
gathering.....
.....he soon had our sweet flower
within his clutches.
Dancing girls pirouetted through
the pall of cigarette smoke.....
.....The head of Jokanaan.....
.....strange visions floated before
the eyes of the heedless revelers.....
.....Mike, the piano player, did his
celebrated imitation of Charlie
Chaplin in "the Gold Rush".....
.....another day and a night passed in
the dimly lit salons of Gas-House
Charlie.....
DIMANCHE
LUNDI
.....and the wolf's fangs had done
their work.
Varville had crushed another rose...
From that day,Camille was a bird
in a gilded cage. Her palatial
residence in corona became a Mecca
for those who trod the Primrose
Path.
Here the wayward traveler
found a welcome.....
.....men came and went.....
THIS WAY OUT ----
.....established houses did no
business.....
.....and the poor creatures of the
streets found it difficult to make
both ends meet.....
.....MEN --- MEN --- MEN --- came from
the four corners of the earth.....
.....men discussed her everywhere.....
Thus passed a year.
The next day Armand calls on his
old family physician.
The wise doctor, having heard of
Camille, cautions Armand.
Frightened By the doctor's words,
Armand --- Armand, too --- abandons
the child who asks but to be loved.
Discouraged, heartbroken, love gone ---
Camille dreams of the little Stranger
to come.....
.....and seeks the Creat Silence.....
.....but, alas! Her
courage fails.
DUMPING OF
GARBAGE OR REFUSE
IN THIS BROOK
IS PROHIBITED
BY ORDER OF
BOARD OF HEALTH
VILLAGE OF RYE
Nanine, her faithful maid,
suggests Varville.....
.....and Camille signals him to come
over.
The wolf, learned in such matters, shows
Camille a way out of her most pressing
difficulty.
Guaranteed
Rubber Goods
not
How Cheap
but
How Good
After the ordeal --- followed gay
summer days of convalescence at
the sea-side.
But the smile was not long to remain
on the wan face of Camille.
One day, passing before the Cathedral
in her elegant Hispano-Suiza, she sees.....
.....a vision of the Virgin Mary.....
.....and remorse.....
.....grips the heart of Camille.
That night --- in her scented
boudoir.....
Too late --- her friends
weep for her.....