LUCIEN GERMAIN

GUITRY (186o— )  , French actor, was born in Paris . He became prominent on the French stage at the Porte Saint-Martin theatre in 'goo, and the Varietes in 19o1, and then became a member of the Comedie Francaise, but he resigned very soon in order to become director of the Renaissance, where he was principally associated with the actress Marthe Brandes, who had also left the Comedic . Here he established his reputation, in a number of plays, as the greatest contemporary French actor in the drama of modern reality .