The first major effort to present lesbianism on the American stage was suppressed by the police. This was in 1927, and the play was the French importation, "The Captive," by Edouard Bourdet. The play was devoid of any message. It concerned a love triangle, two women and a man. One of the women, inevitably enough, did not know to which of the others to turn. This evidently, was too strong for the authorities of the day!