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AMERICA IS LAUGHING

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WITH A HUMOUR THAT IS BRUTAL 'AND VICIOUS.

HER MOST CHERISHED INSTITUTIONS SUBJECTED TO BLISTERING SCORN.

SAYS

R. J. CRUIKSHANK,

THE “NEWS CHRONICLE" NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT

The United States just now is in This antire bludgeons, batters, the mid-winter of its discontent. sneers, jears, flot, derides. It has It is sick of, politicians, out of nothing in common with Gilbert's humour with its President, cynical gentle banter at the expense of about business me scornful of Victorian statesmen. It was the Central Theatre: "Tol'able bankers, suspicious of and phrases, batteringram in place of the David," "

gloomy about the future

rapier. Mr: Georgo Kaufman, the King's Theatro: "Canaries Some- Limes Sing."

When a country grows as die playwright is as little like Gilbert Qucon's Theatre: "Guilty Hand." Filhuioned an all that, it often seeks ng Mr. George Gershwin, the com- Star Theatre: "Bed And Break-relief in satire Satire gives it an poser, is like Sullivan. World Theatre: "The Son Lion" opportunity to hit out savagely at Chineio picture).

the idols that have failed it,

The audience Bads itself laugh- ing not only at its sacred "white Ten Dances at King's Restaurant

This national, moud of an irritat- Feléphants, but at itself. The senti. and Hong Kong Hotel; Dinner Dances at Hong Kong Hotel, Foned giant in reflected in the number mentality of the publis is mocked insula Hotel and King's Restaurant, of satirical journals that bare sud, : as well as the fatuity of its leaders. European Mail: Outward denly swamped the news-stunds. On the verge of the election, the Europe zia Siboria (Pros. Lincoln) p.m.; Europe via Suor (Menelaus) 2 p.m. Europe via Suez (D'Artag nan) 2.30 p.m.

WEDNESDAY.

(March 2.)

Annual General Meetings: The Dairy Farm Ice and Cold Storage Co., Ltd., 11 a.m.; the Hong Kong Realty and Trust Co., Ltd, 19 noon; The Hong Kong Land Invest- ment and Agency Co., Ltd., 12.15

p.m.

All of them are harsh, seme of them obscene and district attorneys and police inspectors are pouncing on them in all parts of the country.

A number of these mushroom pro- ductions have attained huge cirou lutions. The first and cleanest of the series was selling over two inillion copies within a few weeks of its appearance.

The stage is also giving voice to the national discontent The most artistio expression is to be found

Sing which all New York is

party managers and themselves without an

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attractive issue which to go to the country. That not infrequently happens in real life. So they decide to avoid all the warm heart of the Republic by troublesome questions and emptivato appealing to the electars on a plat form of pure, Love

They combine the Presidential: election with a national beauty competition, and the candidate (who has to be a bachelor) proposer to the príza beauty at monster poli tical rallies in each of the forty- Bale of Marble Hali" by Lam-in a new play called "Of The Ilight States of the Union, and mart's, 3 p.m.

promises to marry her on the day Soventeenth Anniversary and flocking to see. This pokes merci he is inaugurated. Thanksgiving Social, St. Paul's Girls' College,3 p.m.

Hunting Fanling Hunt Hounds Meat (Kannels) 3 p.m.

Hong Kong Cricket Club Tennis Tournaments:-Grogn and Chon such a parody of the tribal deities stage. There is, however, nothing

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less fun at the American system of government, and the bitter laugh-j BALLOON PRICKING." ter of the audience must.sound ominous to the politicians.

The humour becomes more brutal No one would have dared stage than is the manner of the London Ho and Yow, Ho Lo and Iu Tak two seasons ago. The Lord Cham-in this to cause regret to say Cheuk . . M. Mcdougall and Gerinia could never be induced to friend of America. The capacity W. A. Tufton, Sai and Kwok license a similar satire on the Lon- to laugh at hypocrisy and humbug Tsui and Taui, H. D. and S. A.

don stage,

used to be very strong in this coun Rumjahn . Wong and Chan, J. G.

try. Ta its early and more radical But the New York stage free of days. America exhibited little pati- Locky and J. J. Waite . J.-C. Cassumbboy ond J. W. Luhring, eesworthip, and it has taken, fullence with solemn pretence and Hambly 7. Hung, T. Honda or G. opportunity of its freedom to pour fatuons complacency. It liked to C. Burnett H. Lubring, S. Ablistering scorn over the country's prick the balloons of pomposity in mest eherished institutions, the President. the Congress, and, the Supremo Court,

Gray and W. Wirth v. E. and F. R. Zimmern.

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There has always been a hard core of healthy scepticism in the national charactër. These gusts of disillusioned laughter represent a return to realism after the fantasy- building of the gilded age that col- lapsed so tragically:

OF THEE I SING." "Of Thee I Sing takes a Pre- silential election for its theme. This, be it noted, is the Presiden-

The American public has been tial year, and in a few months the politicians will be phinging the victimised by some very pompous country in a farment. So the play humbuga in late years. The priest is "exceedingly topical. It steals in the Temple of Mammon were

on the politieinas by dogs. They deserve to ridiculing their efforts in advance laughed, from their altars.

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