WILL ROGERS
[WILL ROGERS IN COCHRAN'S REVUE (1926). LONDON PAVILION.] It was strange after the sparkling, but irrelevant, perfor. mance of Spindly and the skilful dancing of Leonide Massine and Vera Ncmtchinova to find oneself being thoroughly entertained by a rambling discourse on current politics, delivered by an American gentleman who chewed gum cease- lessly. "You haven't got anybody over here quite like me," Will Rogers truthfully tells us. He says he hasn't come here to cement good feeling between England and America, but, in saying so, he is one of the cleverest unofficial ambassadors who have come to our shores ; his object is to get even with the European lecturers who have visited the United States. He succeeds in revealing unsuspected humours in the fall of the franc, the Anglo-American debt pro; blem, the coal strike, and so on. No mean feat. All those who think these matters are serious should make
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