A RETURN TO HUMOUR
Not all the admirers of A. S. M. Hutehinson are aware that he has a literary "past." Long before "If Winter Cornea" and "This Freedom" he wrote an intentionally funny book, called "Once Aboard the Lugger," which really was funny. Since then low comedy has given place to high thinking. Now, while it is a difficult enough task to rise from low comedy to high thinking, it is left to only the bravest spirits of all to descend from high thinking to low comedy and hope to succeed. Yet this is what Mr. Hutehinson has done; returned from high thinking to his old love, low comedy, and found her still waiting, still comparatively faithful. "Big Business is his latest, an inconsequential story which is guaranteed to make anyone laugh, and laugh continuously.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 22
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136A RETURN TO HUMOUR Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 92, 15 October 1932, Page 22
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