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...Haven, Conn., Agnes Maude Royden committed a few witticisms directed, in large part, not at her U. S. detractors but at the inhabitants of England. She said: "It is as easy for an Englishman to say something nice as it is for him to have a tooth pulled. ... In America, candidates 'run' for office, in England they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built...
Sculptor Baker is an Englishman with the face of a stage butler. He came to the U. S. 13 years ago and has since made busts of many notables, including Presidents Coolidge & Wilson. On being apprised of his success, he said: "I think I have pictured a woman who is about to do great things, with a lovely soul and a powerful body...
...said: "Once an officer asked me why I had joined the Foreign Legion, and I had to tell him that I didn't for the life of me know. He said I must have been crazy." At London correspondents discovered, last week, one Thomas William Whitman, an Englishman who had just arrived from Africa after successfully deserting from the French Foreign Legion. "We were punished by Legion officers," he said "for slight mistakes with lashes from huge rawhide whips...
...Lampoon commends the admirable restraint exhibited by omission of the obvious reference to "indifferent horsemanship." The Granta, possibly justifiably, saw no reason to exclude the obvious and its American number is liberally sprinkled with remarks concerning those things by which the United States is known to the Englishman: Hollywood, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, and banditry--of Chicago and elsewhere...
They sat through what is certainly one of the most expensive preparations ever put up, a luxurious operetta about Africa. Dawn, high priestess of native religion, loves an heroic Englishman. Unhappily she is in the power of a gigantic local Negro, planning to elope with her. African life seems darkest just before Dawn discovers she is white; may marry as she, and the audience, prefer. Louise Hunter was wheedled away from the Manhattan Opera House to sing this part and sing it she does as parts are seldom sung in operetta. Her assistants are eminently vocal and the surroundings dressed...