Word: lesbian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Swordsman Bourdet is best known in the U. S. for his Lesbian play, The Captive, produced in Manhattan in 1927 and subsequently banned by the police. Swordsman Bernstein is best known for his play The Thief, which ran on Broadway for nine months in 1907-08, has been twice revived. His Melo, produced in Manhattan in 1931, was last year made into the cinema Dreaming Lips, starring Elisabeth Bergner...
NIGHTWOOD-Djuna Barnes-Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Extremely unusual novel, a poetic parable in terms of Lesbian tragedy. Those who are not frightened off by T. S. Eliot's introduction ("it took me . . . some time to come to an appreciation of its meaning as a whole") probably will be by Author Barnes herself ("I have a narrative, but you will be put to it to find...
...slept less, went on brooding. Though he despised the sensitive artistic type, the knowledge that these men had all been Christina's friends forced him into their company. By the time his nearly-crazy suspicions had convinced him that his beloved wife had been promiscuous, incestuous and a Lesbian, it was only natural that he should take some desperate way out. But readers not in Brand's pinching boots will not jump so far or so readily to conclusions as he, may indeed guess as early as p. 15 that he is going to make a terrible fool...
Greatest foe of profiteering President Hayashi is quiet, persuasive Mrs. Nobuko Jo, whose profession is to induce Japanese women to endure the perplexities of womanhood. Claiming to have prevented over 2,500 suicides, Mrs. Jo is busy today with the acute problem of Lesbian suicides. Starting among Geisha girls, this perversion has now spread to Japanese schoolgirls...
...never whistled up an eerier spirit than in "After the Storm," a story of a Florida beach comber who discovers the submerged wreck of a liner. Some of the other tales: A terrified adolescent tries to castrate himself with a razor. Two lovers part when the girl turns Lesbian. The manager of a Mexican matador who is a miser and a pervert finally gets fed up with his stinginess, but is unable to insult him. A shell-shocked U. S. soldier horrifies his Italian brothers-in-arms by getting the horrors in public. A little boy with fever lies waiting...