The New York Times carried a review of Claude Lowther’s famous play. It was not a glowing report, unfortunately.
Play By An M.P.
“The Gordian Knot,” by Claude Lowther, Produced in London – Is Not a Success.
London Times – New York Times.
Special Cablegram.
London, May 21 – The Times, in criticising “The Gordian Knot,” produced at His Majesty’s Theatre last evening, says the author, Claude Lowther, M.P. is too evidently a diligent student of the younger Dumas.
The young Vicomte de Selignac is being ruined by Garielle Belleville, whereupon his old friend Roger Martens conceives the idea of killing her. Gabrielle gives him a chance to effect his purpose through he vain determination to rehearse a sham strangling scene. She lets down her golden hair, intending to mock at Martens, but he plays the scene in real earnest, strangling her with her own hair.
Miss Olga Nethersole played the heroine in wonderful costumes and languorous poses. No English actress would make more the part. Beerbohn Tree played Martens with a never-failing sense of picturesque character.
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