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...Paris comic paper, takes a slightly different view. In a double cartoon called Tracts et Tractions (Ideals and Deals), it shows a Communist in Paris holding the Communist paper L'Humanite and shouting Le Rif aux Rifains (the Riff for the Riffians). In the other picture is an Englishman in conference with a Riff and the inscription beneath runs: "... et, bien entendu, les mines de Ouergha á une société anglaise!" ( . . . and, of course, the Wergha mines for an English company...
...expectations were not wholly realized. Lord Lee, than whom no other Englishman is alleged to know more about the U. S., which, perhaps, is not surprising, for he married an American, began by suggesting the adoption of the eleventh commandment: "Thou shalt not gush...
British Voice. Characteristically different was the attitude of an Englishman, an attitude not infrequently expressed in England of late. An unnamed correspondent, writing for the Spectator, London weekly owned by J. St. Loe Strachey, declared...
...because I get enough of that and to spare without any appointments-but for the purpose of supplying me with two original jokes against Scotsmen every day of the week. He did it, and that is the reason why the Labor Government was so successful." At that moment, an Englishman, who somehow or other had lost his bearings, remarked: "It must have been a lugubrious job." (Loud laughter...
...falls into the arms of his old sweetheart from the States. Before he can accomplish this, it is necessary to rid the plot of her unpleasant husband. The riddance is ably assisted by a jealous native and a school of sharks. Stirred into this is a silly ass Englishman, a drunken sailor, a governor general, a fervent thunderstorm and some native dancing. George Gaul is conspicuous as the native boy and gives a somewhat monotonous portrayal. None of the cast was overladen with ability or clothing, but they all performed very energetically. Aloma is just about bad enough and just...