WHY HE LAUGHED!

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Issue 1302, 8 April 1915, Page 37

WHY HE LAUGHED!

It all depends how one looks at things. Leonard Nelson, favoured comedian of New Zealand vaudeville audiences, has been relating to Sydney “Sun” an experience that befell :him two years ago in England. His turn didn’t go as well as it might at a certain small town in Birmingham, and he went home feeling most dejected. “My landlady came in. Sure and what may be the matter wid yer?'

she inquired solicitously, struck by my air of utter dejection. “‘Oh, nothing!’ I said wearily. ‘lt’s nothing at all. But I nearly got the bird at the theatre to-night.’ “ ‘Ah, sure, don’t take it so badly, sir,’ she said. ‘Yer must not be discouraged. Sure it’s meself’s been disappointed manys the time. Cheer up, perhaps maybe yer’ll get the bir-r-d next time.’ “I cheered up,” said Nelson. “Who could have helped it? But I’m sure the landlady doesn’t know to this day why I laughed so hard.”