Word: bourdet
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...confused with The Captive, Edouard Bourdet's play about a similar type of woman...
...herself in Manhattan's latest smart-chart, The American Sketch. With her were many more, bewailing, in violent fashion, the too few compliments with which U. S. critics had observed her, and other words celebrating the pretty speeches made to her by Max Reinhardt and polite Edouard Bourdet. Principally, it appeared to be a blast of publicity for Actress Barrymore's latest venture into theatrics, which last week opened in Manhattan, The Kingdom...
Amid scenes of the utmost violence and disorder, San Francisco policemen prevented performance of a play last week. The play was The Captive, by Edward Bourdet. Its performance was forbidden not because the play was bad but because it dealt with homosexuality...
Empire, Broadway at 40th.--The Captive. For those interested in pure theatre this play should hold much attraction. Its Lesbian theme is handled perfectly by Bourdet in La Prisonniere, and Hornblow Jr. has not lost much in translating it. Helen Menken at times falls short of the mark, but is, on the whole, fine...