WOMEN AND HUMOUR.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1399, 31 May 1923, Page 2

WOMEN AND HUMOUR.

THEIR RETICENCE IX LAUGHTER. Two women. .Miss Gertrude .Jennings. playwright, and Miss Athene Sevier, actress, have just given London something to laugh over in the new Haymarket Theatre play, "Isobel. Edward, and Annie." Such a combination is rare enough to he remarkable. Eor. as a rule, women seem to be rather afraid of humour. They are shy about letting themselves go over it. They do not exploit laughter to anything like the extent they ought, stales Gordon Street in the London Daily Mail. An American once asked Mrs Patrick Campbell: “Do yen know why God withheld the sense of humour from women?' "So Dial we m, love y<>u instead of laughing at you." she told him. There is a reason for every!'dug. of course. But that American was too swoeniug. One constantly meets women who have o very real sense of humour, women who talk amusingly and who have amusing original ideas a hum lh:tigs. But most of them are 100 reticent.: they keep the brake too guardedly on the wheel of their wit. You can count tint “funny" women oil the theatre on your fingers Most of them are no longer very young: and there is no feminine Arthur Wimperis. no suave, sor to Marie Lloyd and to mmp to :si• ■ dims- no woman a pi"' a In w •. 'ha pi ill. Mile' l the sum > state of affairs is te he found in literature, art and public life. The humour of ihe world is left in the hands of men. despite the fact that it is one of the few things for w’ l i the demand is in excess of the supply. Where i- ihe woman W. W ■laenhs. i],e woman Stephen Leacock, the woman Tom Webster?