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Chapter 56 Armaments are slack...

Why are there so many people! ?

Lu Shi handed over the fare to the coachman, and then jumped out of the carriage with Natsume Soseki.

The crowd in front of them was like a quagmire. Although they were moving forward, they were extremely slow. Looking down from a high altitude, they looked like chewing gum stuck to the ground that hadn't completely dried out.

Lu Shi yelled, "Give way!"

While shouting, he squeezed into the crowd and stepped on the uppers of more than a dozen shoes at the same time.

When the British gentlemen and ladies around saw that Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki were East Asians, they couldn't help cursing inwardly, saying words like "rude" and "barbaric" endlessly.

Lu Shiquan has never heard of it,

Finally, he and Natsume Soseki came to the gate of the theater.

The doorman naturally knew the two,

"It's Mr. Lu and Mr. Natsume, please!"

So, under the attention of the British outside, Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki entered the Lyceum Theater.

The layout here is completely different from the first time I came here. Gas lamps are lit on both sides of the corridor. The brightly lit room reflects the huge portraits on the walls on both sides.

Henry Owen,

Gogrand,

Salvini,

Stanislavski,

...

A group of performance masters are drawn vividly.

Go further and come to the door leading to the interior of the theater.

Lu Shi pushed the door open and entered.

At this time, the final arrangement was being made on the stage, and the field workers were so busy that they were sweating profusely.

Natsume Soseki patted Lu Shi's shoulder,

"Where!"

Following his gaze, Lu Shi saw Bernard Shaw smoking a pipe,

At this time, Bernard Shaw was having a good conversation with a woman, who should be the Ellen Terry mentioned earlier.

Lu Shi was secretly speechless,

"Tsk...you're not ashamed to be old."

He walked quickly.

Bernard Shaw heard footsteps, turned his head,

"Lu, are you here?"

Lu Shi didn't wait for Bernard Shaw to introduce him, he took the initiative to say hello to Terry, and then asked in a low voice, "Mr. Supervisor, what's going on outside? Looking at the size of the queue, I feel that there must be more than 1,500 people in the audience today." .”

Terry smiled and said, "Mr. Lu has some misunderstanding about Lyceum Theater?"

Lu Shi was stunned,

"misunderstanding?"

Terry smiled even wider, and said: "After Sir Owen took over as the manager, almost every show is sold out. Scalpers are selling 'flying tickets' outside the theater, and the ticket price has doubled. The supply is still in short supply."

Saying that, Terry pointed to Lawton,

"Charles Laughton, Mr. Lu must have known him. Don't look at him, but Sir Owen spoke highly of him. When praising Charles, he called him 'the greatest young actor ever.'"

What Terry means is that the actors in the Lyceum Theater are all famous actors and are very popular.

Therefore, many of those people outside are waiting for scalpers to try their luck.

Bernard Shaw said to Terry: "The Lyceum Theater not only has Charles and Henry, but also you, my beautiful Ellen."

Terry covered her lips,

"Xiao, you can really talk."

When the two looked at each other, their eyes looked like they were going to be drawn.

vomit!

Lu Shi hurriedly looked away.

After a while, George Bernard Shaw said: "And, the new one on the stage today..."

Before the words fell, I heard the door of the theater burst open,

Noisy discussions suddenly broke out.

I saw the crowd scrambling to come in, and even a few women broke their heels.

In 1900, there was no single-seat number outside the box, and tickets were sold according to the area, so people would queue up as early as possible to find the best seat in the area they chose.

Of course, the better the viewing area, the higher the ticket price.

Bernard Shaw nodded to Terry,

"You go first."

Terry saluted Lu Shi and Bernard Shaw, then went backstage,

In "Yes! In The Prime Minister, she will play Dorothy Wainwright, a supporting female character and Jim's political adviser.

Bernard Shaw led Lu Shi and Natsume Soseki to the second floor,

"Let's continue the topic we just talked about."

Lu Shi said: "You said, today's stage is a new play, and with the blessing of Lyceum Theater and Sir Owen, people are very curious."

Shaw shook his head,

"More than that. Think about it carefully, what's the name of your play?"

Lu Shi was taken aback for a moment, then suddenly realized,

The plays in 1900 have very common names, such as "The Occupation of Mrs. Warren", "The Portrait of Dorian Gray", and "Lady Windermere's Fan"...

It's just a bunch of meaningless stuff.

But Lu Shi wrote "Yes! The Prime Minister changed everything,

The name is concise and to the point, and directly named the head of the cabinet, the "Prime Minister", which is very eye-catching.

It is similar to the previous book review edition in the "Manchester Guardian".

George Bernard Shaw said: "Therefore, it is a matter of course that there are many audiences."

With that said, the three of them had already entered the private room.

Not long after they were seated, the play officially began.

As the plot unfolds, a group of actors appear on the stage one by one.

Charles Laughton as Jim Harker,

Henry Owen as Humphrey Appleby,

Innokage Holman as Bernard Woolley,

...

In the original play, Jim first went to the Ministry of Defense to inspect, asking about nuclear weapons, and then used this inspection as an excuse to lead to follow-up matters.

But in 1900 Britain didn't even have a Ministry of Defense, let alone nuclear weapons.

Lu Shi changed it into a battleship.

Soon, the first joke in the script appeared, and it was also the first joke that Lu Shi told Bernard Shaw.

——

Humphrey: Bernard, what do you think the purpose of the British government's defense policy is?

Bernard: To defend Britain, of course.

Humphrey: No, Bernard, the purpose of defense policy is to make people "believe" that the government is defending Britain.

Bernard: People? who? German?

Humphrey: Not German! It's British! The Germans certainly knew that Britain was not protected.

——

As soon as this joke came out, the theater was eerily quiet at first,

Then, everyone burst into laughter.

In fact, the current British Empire is undoubtedly the strongest on the surface of the earth, with the highest military strength in the world, and there is no such thing as "the United Kingdom is not protected".

However, the liberal media promotes day by day:

"Blood! At the Battle of Mount Tarana, the British army was wiped out, with 465 losses! "

"It hinders the international view, Great Britain centrifuges, Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, the United States...more civilizations fight side by side with the Boers"

"Is the howitzer a supply for others? The Battle of Ladysmith cost us 10 cannons"

...

Tell a lie a hundred times, a thousand times, or ten thousand times, and eventually someone will believe it.

What's more, it's not a lie, it's a fact.

Only part of the truth, or part of the truth.

As a result, the citizens of London generally sprouted white left, forgetting that their good life was robbed from backward countries, they all wanted to put on their clothes again, and evolved from burning, killing and looting barbarians to reasonable civilized people.

This kind of cognition gives the soil for the flower of irony to grow.

Moreover, Lu Shi was very smart, choosing battleships as the entry point,

The battleship is a symbol of "Giant Ship Cannonism". It was born in the age of sail and began to change in 1860.

However, the battleship was once broken between 1870 and 1890, and it was only revived in 1890.

You know, it was only ten years from 1890 to 1900, which led to the views of London citizens still stuck in the past——

Battleships are giant idiots built with taxpayer money.

This view was not eliminated until World War I.

The audience laughed heartily, as if the laughter could blow off the roof,

The actors on the stage even have to pause the performance, waiting for the laughter to pass, so as to ensure that the next lines will be spread throughout the theater.

Bernard Shaw's face was full of excitement,

"Lu, we succeeded... no, it should be you, you succeeded!"

Lu Shi nodded,

He looked at the audience who were laughing wildly at the battleship joke, and silently sighed,

Armed down,

The weapons are slack...