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Show COMEDY FILLS NEED, SAYS HENRY MILLER "Truly marvelous is the effect that the war has had upon the public taste for plays," said Henry Miller, who is . now playing an engagement in Rait Lake. "Life is a series of emotions, l Without emotion we would not exist," he ; continued, "and the war lias brought ', home to tiie people a deeper and stronger ' variety of emotions than could have been otherwise experienced." i But Mr. Miller added that life could not be all in the depths or the heights. t There must be relief from tension, lie i said, and hence the taste for comedy, and ! among the Intelligent the clean-cut comedy com-edy has its standard place, i "You cannot judge the stage in general by X e w York," he said. " X e w Y o rk is the poorest town in the world by which 1 to measure public taste. It contains too many people to whom only the salacious and the sensuous strongly appeal. It is a matter of record that many shows do-: do-: a record-breaking business in Xew York and then fall when they are taken to cities where the minds of the theatergoers theater-goers aro not so surcharged with love for abnormality." |