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Word: bourrat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Wednesday night: Mile. Bourrat (Claude Anet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Civic Virtue | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...baby was born, died. M. Allemand-the only one who knew-forced his hand, won the girl for his wife, thus vastly increasing his social status. But by that time he had become village librarian and Mme Bourrat devised a theory that he was the bastard son of a noble, thereby salving her own social consciousness and impressing her relatives. As for the girl-she would have been happy to marry anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

...pallid, pretty face of Josephine Hutchinson, playing Mlle Bourrat, is a frail tissue rent with bewilderment and agony. Also in the cast is her mother, Leona Roberts, ridiculous as a hobbling, puffing aunt. Eva Le Gallienne does not appear, but her associates make this simple story a rich miniature of provincial weal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Oct. 21, 1929 | 10/21/1929 | See Source »

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