SIR HARRY LAUDER.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19472, 6 May 1925, Page 3

SIR HARRY LAUDER.

Sir Harry Laud or’a characters are drawn from real life. Every character is studied to a detail, and portrayed with that keen sense of humour that has made him famous. Anyone who says his studies of Scottish life are overdrawn or made to look ridiculous lias never seen Sir Harry’s work. No other artist ha-s ever achieved the same success by sheer merit. Sir Harry has his detractor, who has not? but it is the most ridiculous statement over made to say: Ho holds the Scot up to ridicule. There is no more sense in such a statement than the one that Albert Chevalier held the Coster in such esteem that ho caricatured him. If there is ono thing: Sir Harry has done it is that ho has simply given something to the world that, the wor'd never knew until tho advent of Harry Lauder. Some of his character studies, such as ‘Tobermory.” whore, with Ids friend Mackay, ho goes for a holiday. ‘‘l love to be a sailor,” a real W. W. Jacobs character to the very life, “Roamin’ in tho Gloamin,” and a courtship story in a verso or two of a song are made a classic in Lander’s hands. “The bass o’ the hoose,” his latest character impersonation, “Dough io the baker,” “When I was twenty-one,” the old man recounting tho happy days of his youlh, are real gems, with no attempt at embellishments whatever. In Sir Harry Lauder, Scotland has a son who has been an ornament to the profession, a credit to Scotland, and an ambassador to Great Britain. It will not cost Sir Harry a thought that a few Scots try to run him down, and refuse to welcome him. Sir Harry has his King and country, pud most of tho English-speaking world to-day as admirers of his art.