Word: bourdet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the French Government, not at all amused, dismissed Claude Bourdet, new director general of French broadcasting. Also suspended was moonfaced Scriptwriter Jean Nocher, who complained: "I can't understand. I intentionally put all kinds of whoppers in it [so listeners would know it was a joke]. For instance, I made Catholics sing a Protestant hymn, Nearer, My God, to Thee...
Died. Edouard Bourdet, 58, sharp-nosed French playwright, onetime director of the haughty Comedie Française, De Gaulle's drama and music expert in the Ministry of Education since last November; of a stroke; in Paris. U.S. theatergoers knew him best for La Prisonniere, a play about Lesbianism which opened in Manhattan as The Captive, closed at the suggestion of the police...
There Ethel Barrymore and Ruth Gordon made their debuts. There, in 1895, at the height of the Oscar Wilde scandal, The Importance of Being Earnest had a panicky U.S. premiere, closed in a week. There, in 1927, Edouard Bourdet's subtle, Lesbian The Captive was closed by the police. There, for over three years and 1,300 performances, Life With Father has been playing...