The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-09-11
HairdresSers Work Selves
Into Lather of Rage at
Bill Kenny'S Insult
DEFY THE YANKEE BIZ KE.
Let i'm Come, Well Show
i'm a Real 'aircut,'
They Chant.
BY HENRY T. RUSSELL
United Press Staff Correspondent

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LONDON, Sept. 11.-Britannia
rules the shears,
The embittered hairdressers of
London, backed by indignant public
opinion, girded their shears today
to repulse the assault on their art
made by William F. Kenny. New
York multi-mill ionaire.
Eccentric" was only one of the
adjectives applied to Mr.. Kennys
action in telephoning across the At
lantic for his barber to come post
haste and give him "a decent hair
cut"
The thing really has become Sc
rious It's the implication that Eng
liSh haircuts aren't decent. A clam
orous press has united behind the
the hairdressers (which Is English
for barbers), and the first impulse
to bar the invading barber under
the alien labor act has given place
to a courageous resolve to let him
come and show him up.
The challenge was flung today at
John Carriers, THE Century Estab-
liSned HairdreSsing Saloon English
for barber shop, on Fleet street.
They Challenge Him
If William F. Kenny's barber
OF any other blighted Yankee barber
wants to come to England and
jouSt with real hairdressers at
Shearing, shaving, trimming, clip
ping, smuggling, massaging. sham
pooling or any other branch of the
art, England is ready.
That is the challenge that came
without hesitation when the United
Press correspondent entered John
Carriers and asked how about it.
Seven BARRIERS rose as one and ad-
vanced, gesticulating with razors
and shears. The correspondent re-
treated out of range and listened.
He heard plenty.
From G.. B. Shaw to most of Eng
lands chief justices"
my father before me"
and peers and swells-"
Memories of 100 years of honor
able haircutting were evoked in the
clamor.
It's an Insult
Then the leading barber stilled
the others and acted as spokesman.
You mean to tell me now we're
not fit to clip a Yankee million
aires hair?" he demanded. Then,
with his dropping all over the place,
he formulated his demands and his
challenge for any Yankee to meet
flrst-clasS London hairdresser In
a hair cutting contest.
WED like to know how the Yam
kee in question judges a haircut.
What proof he knows the difference
between a good and bad haircut?
What proof he has any qualiflca-
tons to judge a haircut? Further
more, what is the difference between
good and bad haircut? What
authority has he to say he couldn't
get good haircut in London?
It's an insult to British BARRIERS.
"Of course, we London artists
can't answer for suburbanite hair
dresSers. But I fancy the Yankee
bloke never tried reputable Lon
don tonsoriaI, because I venture to
say any one of them could carry
hcnors in an international compe-
tition judged by the worlds tonso-
rial experts"
Claims Hair Already Cut
"Let i'm" chimed in chair four,
referring to Kenny's barber; LET
in come. Let i'm invite us to see is
work on Kenny Wen pick 'oles in is
blooming aircut"
So when Kenny's barber. Louis
Arico, arrives on the Leviathan on
Friday. there is every chance he will
r. admitted. The Daily Herald, labor
organ, commented that it would be
an international joke If Arico is not
permitted to land.
The Evening News claimed to
have interviewed Kenny on the
Stoke Poges golf course today. The
News said it found Kenny already
had a hair cut In London.