PLACE OF LAUGHTER
FAMOUS PARES PREMISES CLOSED “Au Ban Hire Gnulois’’ (The G ood i Ha I lie Laugh), a shop which has been known to British visitors to Paris since j th.? nineties, 'has been -Hoeed. Tn a. notice pasted on the window the owner, Pei’e Bo get, thanked hi,s French and foreign customers foe their patronage of his curious business over such a long business devoted to the raw material ol practical joking. The place was at the corner of the Poulcvard ties Capncines and the Buie Caiimartin. Who Iris not gazed in adiriratjon or a,ston’.shment at. th« heterogeneous collection of objects displayed hv Pore F.oget? It is foj deceptive pn-nphomailia. besides the usual “souvenirs” of Paris, that “The Good Gnl’ic Laugh” i-5 famous. Astonishing ingenuity has been put into the conception and maim Lie- , ture ol a multiplicity of such things | as match-boxes that ore n°t match- | boxes, and poached eggs and helpings , of cheese which are pure traps for the unwary. The closing of the shop raises the intern-ting question: Is practical joking now completely out of lashiont I
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Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1933, Page 6
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183PLACE OF LAUGHTER Hokitika Guardian, 17 June 1933, Page 6
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