WHAT PRICE A LAUGH?
Sir-What price a laugh? I think the NBS would be rendering a real national service by providing a recording of good belly laughs to begin the day with. Everyone knows that a hearty, spontaneous laugh is most contagious, and is the best cure for that liverish feeling so many people suffer from before breakfast. I would like to see a composite record made of some laughs we hear over the air; but not those vapid, -artificial "ha ha’s" of some of the Hollywood lovelies. By their laugh ye shall know them for what they are. I grant them beauty and talent, and I admire their elegant facades on which they lavish so much care, but the laughter of many of them betrays their shallow, vain little souls. But give us a record of such genuine rib-ticklers as ‘Charlie. McCarthy’s wickedly sardonic laugh, the hearty "ha-ha" of Fibber McGee's wife, Molly, the bubbling chuckles of Jack Warner (is it?) who. "can’t ’elp laughin’," the helpless giggles of "Marge,"* Jane Ace’s friend, the silly little burble which belongs to "Baffles," Bing Crosby's wholesome, boyishsounding laughter and, best of the lot, some of Gracie Fields’s exuberant ‘shrieks would probably have a better effect on national health and workers’ efficiency than all the lectures by pro-
fessors.
LAUGH AND THE WORLD
LAUGHS WITH YOU
(Seddonville).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 269, 18 August 1944, Page 5
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225WHAT PRICE A LAUGH? New Zealand Listener, Volume 11, Issue 269, 18 August 1944, Page 5
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