Volume 146 — "CINES" OF THE TIMES.
Reading edition
(A far-away Project of educational Films.)
O advent of the age of gold, O happy day for proud papas When Hellas shall her tale unfold On secondary "cinemas"! When "all the glory that was Greece And all the grandeur that was Rome" Shall hire on a perpetual lease The academic "Picturedrome." O Ovid on the screen for kids! O Helicon attained by 'bus! O filmographic Aeneids! O vitoscoped Herodotus! Our boys shall note the sacred Nine Ascending their immortal peak, Also Apollo (he was fine In the old films as Alf the Freak). They shall behold Teiresias Telling the doom of Thebes, and con With eyes but not with lips the crass Way in which Œdipus went on. They shall observe quite painlessly The heroes toiling as they sit Rowing upon the sun-kissed sea With black smuts racing over it. Some stout electroscopic "star," Some Gallic beauty bistre-eyed, Shall show them in the years afar How Helen laughed, how Priam died, And how the good Æneas came Through faked adventures on the screen To Latium, and what forks of flame Devoured a dummy Punic queen. What snares the Queen of Love employed, What Juno: mixed with local ads, These shall be thoroughly enjoyed By all appreciative lads. And some day, if the gods are kind To hearts so filled with classic feats In many a marble palace "cined" And puffed so oft in halfpenny sheets, Shall come revulsion, faintly stirred By Phœbus' and the Muses' laugh, Against the foul sins of a word Like spectodrome or vitagraph. Youth shall draw learning from the spring Pierian, and be taught to know The clustered verbal shames that cling About the moving picture show, Till at the last shall dawn a bright, A long-to-be-remembered day, When porticos of fanes of light Shall print Kinema with a K.
Evoe.
"H.M.S. Cumberland.
Geneva, Tuesday.
The Municipality to-day gave a luncheon in honour of the officers and cadets of the training ship Cumberland.—Reuter."
Naval and Military Record.
Another record for Winston. He alone could succeed in getting H.M.S. Cumberland to Geneva.
"Widcombe Manor, Bath, in which Fielding is said to have written 'Tom Jones,' is to come under the hammer shortly. It is one of the smaller houses erected by Indigo Jones."
Manchester Evening News.
It was, of course, the influence of his ancestor Indigo which so tinged certain episodes in Tom's career.