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...Marquise. An English youth named Noel Coward wrote The Vortex (London 1924, Manhattan 1925) and since then disciples have awaited another play as good. The Marquise is another not so good. It is about a lady who descended upon a French chateau to see her old lover and her child by him. Soon she found the child affianced to a neighbor's son, also her child. It is carefully explained that save for these two slips the lady has been strictly moral, and the purpose of the play is to decide which of these two lovers she shall marry...
...friend, Major Bathurst (Nigel Bruce), just prior to the second act curtain. When the Major, personifying the stalwart virtues of the British Army, turns upon Miss Larrimore with a tongue-lashing for her immorality, the audience can almost imagine itself listening to the scene in Playwright Coward's Vortex wherein the son flayed his mother for her debauchery. Next year young Mr. Coward...
...play in which a boy's lascivious and degenerate mother carried on under his and her husband's nose with her young paramour. (The Vortex...
...VORTEX-London society at decadent, amusing and finally fearfully moving moments. Noel Coward, actor and author...
...others: Hay Fever and The Vortex...