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One Saturday afternoon when we were young, my sister Emily and I were watching an old WC Fields/Burns and Allen movie on TV. In one scene, WC Fields landed his autogyro at the hotel. At the end of the scene, we howled in laughter and yelled for our dad.
My dad was born in Wuhu, Anhui Province, China. Wuhu lies on the Yangtze River, west of Shanghai. It was a port city and was known as a rice center of China. It has been inhabited for nearly 3000 years. My dad used to tell us stories of his grandfather who was the magistrate of Wuhu and my dad’s great uncle who was the chief of police. No one had ever heard of Wuhu so we would say our dad was from near Shanghai. We couldn’t believe that Wuhu could be mentioned in an old 1930s comedy, especially as the punch line for a WC Fields joke. It’s kind of amazing that we even saw that movie in the first place. International House isn’t one of the more well-known works of WC Fields’ oeuvre.
Here’s a video of Wuhu today.
