SOVIET HUMOUR
Sir,—Your correspondent interested in Soviet humour should buy “Soviet Humour,” published by the British Society for Cultural Relations with the U.S.S.R. ( Here are a few examples:
Customer: “Do you serve such terrible meals every day?*
Waitress: "Oh no. we’re closed on Mondays!" Or Customer: "Why does the junket smell of onions and your bread reek of kippers?”
Waiter: "I can’t understand it. Only last night it was the other about!" Or A picture of a men’s wear salesman scratching his head and saying: "We’re short of one suit; we sold 10, but only nine were returned.”
If your correspondent read the University of Glasgow’s “Soviet Studies” he would find in the April. 1954, issue, a film review which would have been a compliment to “Whim Wham” in his funniest moments. The review, translated from a Russian publication, is in verse.—Yours, etc., STUDENT. June 14, 1954.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27376, 15 June 1954, Page 7
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