French postcard. Imprimerie Darjeanne. Firmin Gémier in the play Sherlock Holmes, at the Théâtre Antoine, Paris. Photo Paul Gerber, Paris. The play (1899) by William Gillette and based on the famous stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, was first performed in a French version by Pierre Decourcelle, at the Théâtre Antoine in Paris in 1907.
Firmin Gémier (1869-1933) was actor, director and theatre manager at the French stage, promotor of the Théâtre Populaire and founder of the first Théâtre National Populaire (Paris 1920). He also acted in the French silent and sound cinema of the 1910s to the 1930s.
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