Crane Wilbur — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1914) 🇺🇸

Crane Wilbur has been in motion pictures but one year, and that with Pathé, but has accumulated more popularity, publicity, and universal appreciation of his work than the nine years he spent on the stage ever began to bring him.

Mr. Wilbur’s knowledge of the stage is not by any means confined to the footlights. He is an author and a playwright and has launched several plays and vaudeville sketches with great success.

His first appearance on the dramatic stage was with Henry Irving in Robespierre in London. His particular stunt consisted in leading a mule and cart across the stage in which were seated Mr. Irving and Ellen Terry, and reading his one line which was “Yes,” and which he laughingly claims he forgot.

Some of Mr. Wilbur’s most valuable training was received while with Mrs. Fiske’s famous Manhattan Company.

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Collection: Motography Magazine, July 1914