Word: stuffs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workman's challenge to down a pint of "bitter" almost proved the candidate's undoing. Champagne is, in fact, his drink. Shrewd, he sidestepped the challenge temporarily, practiced at home by gargling bitter beer until he could down the horrid stuff publicly without making a wry face. In Smethwick, his constituency, beer is almost an article of the workingman's faith...
...develop a Milne play like Mr. Hopkins. His deft hand is always there to give a push where the fragile dramatic fabric can stand it, to give gentle support where the stuff is sheer. Actor Calhern, having owed himself a good performance since his appearance in The Tyrant, makes a splendid baffled member of Parliament. If you can stand whimsy in stiff doses, Give Me Yesterday is recommended...
...Husbands Go. Every time one enters Producer John Golden's theatre one can be sure of seeing a show made out of good solid, substantial stuff, with a dash of sympathetic humor. Mr. Golden's latest divertissement, As Husbands Go, is by Rachel Crothers, who has been writing plays for 27 years and has never yet lost a female character's honor. Her present piece is no exception, although for a time it looked as though Lucile Lingard (Lily Cahill), who found romance and a young English poet while visiting Europe, might let Miss Crothers down...
RANGO-Intelligent animal stuff from the Sumatran jungles...
...father, is a butcher. He retired two years ago in ill health. Of his family he said: "They're all strong and healthy, and I encourage them in taking part in clean sport and play. The cellar's full of ice skates, skis, snowshoes and other stuff for them to play with outdoors. ... It would be nice to get the money, but if we don't-all right...