Show REAL ENGLISH WIT A London Comedian Teases Hilarity By Frequently Changing His Hat Considerable stress is laid upon thee the-e local popularity which Arthur Ar-thur Roberts who is to be seen here in The Gaiety Girl next fall enjoys in London where for years he has been a reigning favorite Some idea of the range of his laughtercausing powers is made known by a recent brief discussion dis-cussion beween a Londbner and a New Yorker Said the American to his British Brit-ish cousin When I get to London I want to see something that is really funny something some-thing that is characteristic in its humor hu-mor and I would like to see the comedian come-dian whom you consider the most comical comi-cal of all your funny fellows on the stage stageWell Well said the Englishman go and see Arthur Roberts When I am at homeI go four or five times a week to see hIm and I really laugh myself sore He Is so deucedly amusing and so entirely en-tirely original The American saw Mr Roberts and then he saw his English friend to whom he declared most vociferously with the use of several expletives that he thought Mr Roberts was as funny as a square of corrugated iron But my dear boy said the Englishman English-man did you watch him closely Yes I watched him closely until he made me weary and I could not see anything funny in him Now I wish you would tell me what you as a Brit isher consider funny The answer came quick Why my dear boy he has a different differ-ent hat on each time he makes an en tranceNew York Morning Journal |