The People's Verdict
HE lofty brows that bend over the knotty problems of "Civilisation" can, it seems, take time off to attend to such questions as "Have Women a oy reater Sense of Humour.than Men?" Opinion, from 3ZB, tackled this problem the other Sunday night with accustomed earnestness, plumping down on either side of the fence to the greater
advantage of the men. (The women, traitors to their sex, seemed to have a low opinion of their own sense of humour.) But all this was before Douglas Cresswell came along and considerably livened up the usual course of these discussions by refusing to take the subject at all seriously. There was no question with him of sitting on ‘the fence: anatomically impossible as it sounds, he kept. his tongue wedged firmly in his cheek, But all the same I did not quite see how Al. Sleeman (without his usual ‘conviction I thought) concluded that Mr, Cresswell was on the side of the women. Mr. Cresswell, with considerable delicacy, had managed to extricate himself from the unfortunate position of having to show either disloyalty to his own sex or lack of gallantry to the ladies. You could take it either way.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 17, Issue 437, 7 November 1947, Page 19
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