GUITRY, LUCIEN GERMAIN (186o-1925), French ac tor, was born in Paris on Dec. 13, 186o, and died there on June 1, 1925. He first appeared at the Gymnase, immediately after leav ing the Conservatoire in La Dame aux Camelias (1878). His style of acting, sparing in gesture and theatrical effects, at first surprised rather than pleased the public and the critics; this impression was still stronger when, in 1891, he played with studied restraint in the part of Kean, which had been created by the romantic actor Fred erick Lemaitre. Sarah Bernhardt asked him to play at the Theatre de la Renaissance, and it was here that he achieved his first suc cesses. He appeared in plays of the most varied character, from Maurice Donnay's Amants (1895) to Anatole France's Crainque bille. It was perhaps in Bernstein's plays that he reached his zenith. He succeeded in representing the utmost frenzy of passion with the greatest economy of method ; his acting was exceedingly restrained and at the same time marvellously expressive. From 1919 onwards he frequently acted in the plays of his son, M. Sacha Guitry ; he was remarkably successful in creating the principal parts in Pasteur and Mon Pere avait Raison. The last part he played was in On ne joue pas pour s'amuser (1925).