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Show THE ENGLISH SENSE OF HUMOR. i George Ado says: I All humor Is local. What Is funny I in Chicago Isn't funny in New York. s I) 's th. samo the world over. Local ity Us everything to do with It. Tho Envlsh have a sense of humcr, of , course, but It Is very different from ours. They appreciate Impossible situations, sit-uations, when they are portrayed, very keenly. A favorlto bit of comedy with them is tho part of the play when tho servant masquerades as tho mistress. It seems so utterly absurd and Impossible Impos-sible to them to have tho servant putting put-ting on tho airs of tho master or mistress mis-tress that they laugh very heartily. You see, It depends entirely on tho point of view. American humor does not appeal to Harry J. Robinson lives at Bingham where ho conducts a newspaper, Tho Bingham Bulletin. For several years ho has played an important part in the public affairs of Bingham. Ho Is bold, fearless and aggressive, makes tho English peoplo because they can't appreciate it right away and don't caro enough about it to investigate it. If an English show is presented on this sldo wo all go and mako a fuss over it and over the actors. If there Is a situation which wo do not see at first wo sit down and figure it out until we get it. Over there they don't see it, and they don't caro whether they do or not. That is ono thing that I resent very much tho American adulation for everything British and tho way tho British treat the Americans. They always al-ways talk down at ono from an angle of forty-five degrees. "When an English Eng-lish actor comes over hero nothing is too good for him. Ho gets American Beauty, roses by tho bunch and is Invited In-vited everywhere and entertained in tho most hospitable manner. When an American actor goes over there ho Is received at tho station by " H HARRY J. ROBINSON Legeslative Candidate warm friends and some enemies. He is a candldato on tho republican tick-jet tick-jet for the lower house of tho legislature. legisla-ture. His ability and experience in public affairs peculiarly fit him for membership in the legislature. having three hundred pounds of Ice put in his lap, and that is all ho gets while he is over there. No kind of American plays really go well in London. Tako "Arizona," a corking play. They simply say over there, "Wo don't know who theso chaps aro or what they are about." And they don't caro, olthor. "Shoro Acres," a beautiful play, was rearranged, rearrang-ed, transplanted and grafted on to tho Dovonshlro coast, and then it did not mako a hit with them. Thoy can't oven bo fooled Into appreciating ap-preciating it or other good plays like it. |
