Word: ve
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have never met a kindly old man, if you have never seen the village band in full regalia, with Fezes and substantial "cuds", if you've never heard a farm-hand quartet around the old oaken bucket, nor seen simple Uncle Josh cavorting in a palatial New York Mansion, if you don't believe that "ridin" over the New Hampshire Hills is better than a Turkish bath, or if you haven't stamped or clapped at a Virginia Reel in the kitchen of the farm, if you haven't seen and heard and done all the things that...
...ve got the ships, we've...
...ve got the money...
Luckily, only the first act of "We've Got to Have Money", the new farce at the St. James, is encumbered with collegiate atmosphere. The actors just struggle through the afternoon of commencement day at Columbia, and in spite of the many unnatural lines they manager to give the gallery a great deal of amusement. After the scene shifts to a business office in the Woolworth Building, the blemishes in the dialogue reoccur only when the principals make artificial speeches about having been "old pals" in the good old college days. The improbabilities of a business farce do not matter...
Another is a reproduction of Harold Speed's painting showing a dock laborer looking up from The Daily Herald (the Labor journal), exclaiming "Socialists! They've done nothing...