Word: boudoired
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Perhaps Mr. Laski will explain his stand and elucidate clearly the principles he talks for. There may be some extenuating circumstances hidden from the unenlightened. If he cannot wholly justify his course of action, or takes it from love of the bizarre, let us shun him as a "Boudoir Bolshevist," a breed against which we have been warned. D. H. WORRALL...
...triteness of the plot did not spoil this play, the unplausibility surely would. The American girl, in a moderately daring boudoir scene, causes the German colonel's death. The next minute the American officer--a captive in the chateau--enshrouds the German lieutenant-colonel in his khaki coat and has the firing squad mistakenly shoot him dead. Then the American contingent goes and nails the German general for good measure. Being fed up on such glorious killings, the auditor might expect to see Von Hindenburg shot through the heart for the final curtain, but the authors have not got that...
...members of the cast are well selected, although there is a marked tendency to overact among them. This is especially true of Mr. John Weatley as Joe Damorel and Miss Jessie Ralph as Sloan. The former does a fine bit of acting in pacing up and down before the boudoir door with no companion but a cigarette; he needs no lines at this time, he needs no lines at this time, he thoroughly acts his feelings. Miss Ralph missed a good opportunity to score high with the audience in not keeping her maid humor more subdued. Miss Lucile Watson...
...vaudeville houses. Here, however, is a play in which a singular art has been carried to its height. We never miss the speaking, for we are absorbed in the delightfully foolish little plot and amazed at the grace of the whole thing. Pierrot's home and phrynette's boudoir furnish two admirable settings for an entire evolution of emotions and from nonsense to a tinge of tragedy, we are appealed to from a variety of feelings...
...Rondo-Gavotte. "Me voici dans son boudoir...