Word: stuff
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...your beliefs and high sentiments with real deeds. If you ought to be in the army, get into it. If you ought to be here, make every minute count. In any case, be an American twenty-four hours of every day and learn that slackers are bred of the stuff which is satisfied with "doing...
America's hopes will not be diminished by the growing list of those of her sons who have given their lives. And her fears will be lightened by the realization that America is doing her duty in backing a great cause, and that the nation is made of the stuff that will stand the pangs of sacrifice when sacrifice is demanded...
...Woods, who produced, "The Rape of Belgium," once was active in the ten-twenty-thirty arena. Now Mr. Woods presents his plays on a $1.10, $2.20 and $3.30 scale, including war tax, but the stuff is the same--in the production at the Shubert, at least. From the first to the last curtain a lot of stage ordnance is exploded while brutal German officers are stalled and finally thwarted in their purpose to defile an American girl and a countess in the inevitable Belgian chateau...
...might please a Watch and Ward investigator to see the lustful Teutons frustrated, but to those of us who have seen "Under Fine" and "Inside the Lines," it is trite and threadbare stuff. Mr. Anspacher, a co-author of the Belgium piece, might better confine himself to writing of unchastened women instead of the chastened kind, and Mr. Marcin, the other co-author, should stick to crook plays. As for Producer Woods, he is doing as well as when he produced "Bertha, the Beautiful Cloak Model," but not much better...
Before Broadway sees this show, it must be mangled materially by its authors and more substantial stuff must be introduced, else Broadway will not see it for long...