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...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...
...appearance as a sole star. It is true that Mr. Brian has been surrounded with a cast of mediocrity, which might excuse leniency in judgment. He dances as well as ever, but even stepping around as he does cannot take away the conviction that "Her Regiment" is pretty thin stuff...
...work without a touch of romance; it has seemed a monotonnous series of incidents no one of which was interesting in itself. One branch of service, however, has lighted up the picture. It is a field where only heroes can serve with success and where heroes can show the stuff they are made of. This field is aviation...