Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...stuff of romance is in this book;--hard riding Celts sweeping down upon Saxon shield walls; Drusus, prefect of the Damnonian March, leading forth the remnants of Roman civilization in Britain to quell the barbarian invaders; love, conspiracy, and battle in Lyonesse in the tumultuous days which followed the death of King Arthur...
...stuff of romance is here, but not in its best manner. Messers. Bishop and Brodeur have a brave story to tell; it is a pity they have not told it more skillfully. They have chosen to adopt a pseudo-heroic style. Their characters prate mightily of great deeds for mother Britain, messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger after messenger falls swooning at the king's feet, rude soldiers in battle and Roman citizens on the streets blurt out heroic speeches tuned to the rhythm of a Cicero. It is all very exciting, but seldom convincing. One suspects that...
Such is the case with Aristide Maillol--a collection of whose works on paper and in plastic stuff is being shown at the Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibits are few in number, and a great part of them are probably bettered in quality by the work of much poorer artists. But even these are interesting, as a background to his better work, and this is really good...
...Gest walked restlessly back and forth in the hotel room hired for publicity purposes and then stopped suddenly with the remark, "I know it's impossible to convince the public that any theatrical producer is ever impelled by any other than trousers pocket motives. Most of the stuff that's put on the stage today would never be produced if it were not for the big financial income expected from it. But if it were true that I had no reasons for my work outside of money I would have spent the rest of my life putting on shows with...
...Revere where thrills are thunderbolts and in the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns foolish Lillian Sidney Serota has arisen to proclaim her muse. In a recent edition of the Boston Traveller--to use the style affected by my friends in the next column--Lillian does her stuff, to the extent of one story, "The Eternal Triangle". And it is really worth mentioning, worth even more than mentioning. For Lillian's muse is equal the fiddling flair of Maine's minstrel of the bobbed haired wife. It prefaces a return to the casual in contemporary letters and, more...