ENGLISH AND, AMERICAN HUMOUR.
- The qualify 'of, American; liumorir is /boin" cnbllcngod ■ "by the 1 "Now York World," which is moved ito. ask:—"What | is tho matter, with American humour, which, generation ago, ' was as good 1 as any ?; Great Britain; is now ahead of, us not only intlie huttonr displayed in its musical; comedies and its. light dramas,, but: also' in comic, wcoklies. Wo-;cfill our British cousins dull arid heavy; :wo deny thom' tlie_ gift of. humour.' But is it' so? 'Punch' is often'.'derided by Americans, but only. bccause thoy never have seen it. Great Britain's great comic weekly always lias, something worth seeing; its humour is:unfailingly good; its tasto is novor coarse, nover cruol. "We have no humorous publication of which 'as much can bo .said. It . may be. that, our strenupnsness : has; chocked; ' tho ment of Amorican. humour 'and . left us a shopworn article. ■ Any way, tho nation is, crying for a better brand. ' Wo need it badly."' : ■
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 10
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160ENGLISH AND, AMERICAN HUMOUR. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 716, 15 January 1910, Page 10
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