{"numero_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_sha256": "c307522231021d840e70a8325a799f9c1e2eb71835174b799fd0ca93b3b89338", "source_tei": "https://github.com/Princeton-CDH/bluemountain-transcriptions/blob/main/periodicals/bmtnaau/issues/1918/05_01/bmtnaau_1918-05_01.tei.xml", "source_mets": "https://github.com/pulibrary/BlueMountain/blob/main/metadata/periodicals/bmtnaau/issues/1918/05_01/bmtnaau_1918-05_01.mets.xml", "url_numero": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01", "articles": [{"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c001", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c001", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "9", "page_fin": "9", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.1", "titre_corps": "£ 14,647", "titre_sommaire": "£ 14,647", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "9", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 162, "fin_caractere_exclue": 2144, "texte": "£ 14,647\nYOU ask for Proof that William Blake was a great artist.\nYou have it here. That William Blake died in 1827,\nthat it is more than eighty years ago :... here you have it.\nIt is necessary to kill a great artist to discover our own\ncm A I mPQQ\nPROOF FROM CHRISTIE'S!!!\nThe Celebrated MONEY PROOF ! !\nThe ALL-LOWEST VERY NEARLY ATTAINED.\nCourage, Dear Friends, one Last bold Effort and the Pit is ours.\n£ 14,647 is the sum paid at Christie's last month for a\nfew of Blake's masterpieces for which your ancestors paid\nhim about £ 300 in all; pitying him as an insane man. You\ntherefore make a profit of about £ 14,300. Think of it!...\nsuch a Profit is almost sacred;... weep, crocodiles.... but\nwhence came those long ears of yours?\nNow go and read GILCHRIST'S LIFE OF WILLIAM\nBLAKE Published by John Lane. Continue to hold the\nopinion that your treatment of his work while he lived was\nanything short of ignorant, lest we accuse you of ruining your\nwhole NATION not through Ignorance but through a hatred\nof great things and great mem.\n\" And if a Great man di arise, my dear Semar, do\nyou know what we should do with him?... we should\nKILL HIM \". So said a Patriotic Englishman to me last\nyear, a nice fe110w.,., all of us like him: he is charming, too.\nThis not uttered regretfully, comically, as one who slips\non orange peel.... n0.... uttered fiendishly and with all the con-\ncentrated fury of the dwarf's advocate. The fury of the Little\nman is the most hideous kind of all. His fury is a pity,\nbut not fatal; for, when a great man arises he will be the\nfirst to hail him.... he always does : like Wells, like all so-\ncialistic souls. They cursed Buonaparte and obey him best.\nIt is only your Tallyrands, your silent quiet knaves, who trap\nNapoleons ; and if you drag down a master statesman you\nwill drag down a seer like Blake, like Whitman, and har-\nrass the minor artists such as Chatterton, Francis Thompson,\nDowson, and a hundred hundred others.\n(Continued on page 10)"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c002", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c002", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "9", "page_fin": "9", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.2", "titre_corps": "TO THE PUBLIC", "titre_sommaire": "TO THE PUBLIC", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "9", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 2146, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3210, "texte": "TO THE PUBLIC.\nO REMEMBER o\nALWAYS to make ONE more\nBOLD EFFORT to achieve\nsome fresh noise*\nNever forget this... One more bold\neffort.... does it. Kill beauty and\nachieve Vulgarity by one trumpet more...\none more howl of Ignorance... above\nall destroy Blakes and Van Goghs,\noh most moral distinguished joy-riders, by\nyour funnyness. Never cease. Christie and\nTime will prove you wrong..... never\nmind; be drunken and be damned,\nmost noble Public, you ruler of all\nbut yourself, Kill to prove the kind-\nness, not the cruelty, of nations; to\nprove the beauty of Democracy; for\nit was certainly not the spirit of auto-\ncracy which caused George 111 to utter\nthe now celebrated mot reprinted here\non page 10. It was only George Ill's\ndemocratic funk which loosened the\nshudder. Boredom such as his is the\nvery essence of Democracy. I mean of\ncourse modern and popular Democracy,\nnot the noble Democracy of Athens and\nWhitman : Athens which, by the way,\nstabbed one Socrates in the back.\nBoredom, the pose or the mood of\nthose too weak to command and too\nweak to obey."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c003", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c003", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "9", "page_fin": "9", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.3", "titre_corps": "LIBERTY : EQUALITY : FRATERNITY", "titre_sommaire": "LIBERTY : EQUALITY : FRATERNITY", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "9", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 3212, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3354, "texte": "LIBERTY : EQUALITY : FRATERNITY\n„ Libertas est potestas faciendi id\nquod jure licet.\nLiberty is the power of doing that\nwhich the Law permits."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c004", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c004", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "9", "page_fin": "9", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.4", "titre_corps": "EQUALITY : (A SAILOR SPEAKS)", "titre_sommaire": "EQUALITY : (A SAILOR SPEAKS)", "signature_source": "Captain Marryat", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "9", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 3356, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3810, "texte": "EQUALITY. (A SAILOR SPEAKS):\nCaptain Marryat.\nThe service is a rough, but a good\nschool, where everybody finds his 1e-\nve1,... not the level of equality, but\nthe level which his natural talent and\nacquirements will rise or sink, him to, in\nproportion as they are plus or minus.\n* * * *\nEquality! I mean no disrespect to\nyour father, Jack, but he must be\neither mad or foolish, if at his age\nhe has not discovered that there is no\nsuch thing in existence."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c005", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c005", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "9", "page_fin": "9", "image_debut": 1, "image_fin": 1, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.5", "titre_corps": "FRATERNITY", "titre_sommaire": "FRATERNITY", "signature_source": "Beranger", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "9", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.1", "debut_caractere": 3812, "fin_caractere_exclue": 4132, "texte": "FRATERNITY.\nBeranger.\nPauvres models, tant de haine vous lasse;\nVous ne goutez qu' un penihle sommeil.\nD'un glohe etroit divisez mieux I'espace;\nChacun de vous aura place au soleil.\nTous atteles au char de la puissance,\nDu vrai honheur vous quittez le chemin.\nPeuples, formez une sainte alliance,\nEt donnez-nous la main."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c006", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c006", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "10", "page_fin": "10", "image_debut": 2, "image_fin": 2, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.6", "titre_corps": "DEGRADE FIRST THE ARTS IF", "titre_sommaire": "DEGRADE FIRST THE ARTS IF", "signature_source": "William Blake", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "10", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.2", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3175, "texte": "DEGRADE FIRST THE ARTS IF\nWilliam Blake.\n\nThen explain how such men are allowed to spend their\nRhetoric in the service of the All-Lowest.... dragging down...\nfilling the mob with a grand idea of itself.\n■ The people have been nothing; they must be every-\nthing n. Two lies in a single double-jointed sentence, for the\nPeople have been everything; take care lest they become\nworse than nothing.\nThe Living Arts, the Living Artists must be honoured\nby England, (not merely by the Christie thumb mark eighty\nyears too late). There must be no more excuses, no more\nof that kind of shirking which George 111 indulged in to the\ngravest loss to his nation when he was shewn some drawings\nby William Blake, and said, \" Take them away. Take\nthem away!!\" (vide Gilchrist, 1907 edition, page 265).\nI am one of the lower class who write this. I hold\nthat there are three classes. I am of the third. I have al-\nways thought and felt what I say. Our duty is to become\neverything we can become, not by push but by being no-\nthing :... that is by minding our own business. Our first\nduty is to feed and clothe one another.\nGILCHRIST'S \"THE LIFE OF\nWILLIAM BLAKE. \" {John Lane).\nA REVELATION\nWhat ? how can it be a revelation ?\nthe book has been known for years.\nOh yes, KNOWN,... as George 111\nknew his foremost Poetic Genius,\nKNOWN as the Blind Man sees eve-\nrything, and the Deaf hear everything,\nYes, known as we know a storm is\ncoming but are too lazy to really take\nit in. Take it in now, Children,...\nTake it in... Out of the Storm. Take\nin William Blake and learn as quickly\nas you can everything he can tell you.\n... Quickly, quickly, believe all he tells\nyou : it's true... He doesn't teaze a\ntired world with Politics, nor with\nReligion, nor with Art. Nor with\nmoralizing, nor with a Patriotism based\non Profit and Propaganda; nor with\nanything. He is just a great Poet, a\ngreat Artist, a perfectly sane thinker, and\nabout the sanest Englishman we ever\nhad. Take him to Court, to the Em-\nbassy, to the Consulate, to the Church,\nto the Salons, and buy every copy you\ncan get hold of of this life of his, and\ngive Wells, Shaw, Futurists and all\nof the modern men a rest for a while.\nAfter you've understood Blake you'll\nsee where Whitman is; then the rest\nof u5.... And do stop thinking, and\ncomparing and discussing the merits of\nDwarfs when these Giants stand there\noffering you a NEW WORLD.\n«I For THE CONSTRUCTORS OF\nTHE WORLD are not Wells, not\nShaw, not Wilson, not Clemenceau,\nno, nor the great Alfred.... and not\na Committee.... rest to these perturbed\nspirits.,., but are William Blake and\nWalt Whitman and their kith and kin.\nWhitman sang songs for Democracy.\nHow is it the swing is so regal ?\nNo one yet has ever explained this.\nWilliam Blake didn't bother his\nhead about Democracy... and yet good\nDemocrats find his Songs Divine.\nThen perhaps p-e-r-h-a-p-s there is\nsomething which can become even more\npopular, less vexing and twenty times\nas successful as Democracy... as Aristo-\ncracy.... as Autocracy and all the rest of\nthe Hocus-Pocus. Why not have\nTHAT in place of Fudge as a\nfoundation to a new world?\nC'EST L'IMAGINATION\nQUI GOUVERNE LE\nGENRE HUMAIN.\nNapoleon I."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c007", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c007", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "10", "page_fin": "10", "image_debut": 2, "image_fin": 2, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.6.1", "titre_corps": "GROUND PLAN OF THE OLD THEATRE OF COVENT GARDEN: LONDON", "titre_sommaire": "GROUND PLAN OF THE OLD THEATRE OF COVENT GARDEN: LONDON", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "10", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.2", "debut_caractere": 3177, "fin_caractere_exclue": 3285, "texte": "GROUND PLAN OF THE OLD THEATRE OF\nCOVENT GARDEN: LONDON.\nDEGRADE FIRST THE ARTS IF\nYOU WOULD MANKIND DEGRADE"}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c008", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c008", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "11", "page_fin": "11", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 3, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.7", "titre_corps": "YOU WOULD MANKIND DEGRADE", "titre_sommaire": "YOU WOULD MANKIND DEGRADE", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "11", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 1540, "texte": "YOU WOULD MANKIND DEGRADE\nGEORGE III AND BLAKE\nIT is the gravest responsibility to be a King. So grave\nthat few monarchs succeed in the difficult task.\nTo be grave enough one must be able to be merry.\nLouis XIV, Charles II and Henry Vli I excelled in gra-\nvity and laughed often enough. All real Monarchs.\nBut George 111, well, we know as little about him as\nhe knew about William Blake: our fault, but of little con-\nsequence ; whereas George Ill's ignorance of William Blake\nwas full of unfortunate consequence to us all.\nHIS IGNORANCE OF WILLIAM BLAKE is what\nmatters. Never mind whether he cared for Blake's WORK\nor not;, that is the secondary question. Blake was one his\nsubjects,... one of the Sons of the Land of which he,\nKing George, was the Father.\nTo have brushed away the works with 'Take them\naway, take them away* was bad enough,... bad manners in\na great gentleman: not to have regretted his hasty act\nwas worse For to be proud of its faults is not the prero-\ngative of majesty. But worst of ail was it to have failed to\nremember that William Blake was one of his Sons, now\nproved at Christie's Auction Room to have possessed a\nmost successful genius in his person... now therefore proved\nto have been worthy of, at any rate, as much Royal patro-\nnage as Charles II bestowed upon Purcell or Louis XIV\nupon Scarron.\nPoor King to be blamed for what was probably the\nfault of his courtiers.\n* * *\nPoor Courtiers to be blamed for what was possibly the\nfault of the weather....\nWe can leave William Blake and the weather together."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c009", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c009", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "11", "page_fin": "11", "image_debut": 3, "image_fin": 3, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.8", "titre_corps": "THE PLOT IS NO THINNER", "titre_sommaire": "THE PLOT IS NO THINNER", "signature_source": "", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "11", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.3", "debut_caractere": 1542, "fin_caractere_exclue": 4607, "texte": "THE PLOT IS NO THINNER.\nO Rosenkrantz and Guildenstcin. O\n,f Something is rotten in the state of\nDenmark \"•\nR. He is mad.\nG. No, my dear, do not let us say\nthat. The danger to Denmark is\ntoo great for us. Think of what\nit would mean to us if he came\nto the throne?\nR. But how can that be prevented?\n.... he has the people's voice.\nG. Exactly. But you and I know how\nto manage it so that the voice of\nthe people .... ehem, the voice of\nGod, .... shall be raised in favour\nof another,\nR. Who?\nG. Laertes.\nR. What? .... that awful person?\nG. Awful or not, he has the primary\nqualities necessary for a modern\nleader.\nR. And they are....?\nG. Weakness, fear of us, and no sense\nof humour,\nR. There you are right. Prince Ham-\nlet is intolerable,... A pack of faulty\nideals, honest, and always laughing.\nAs I said, he* s mad.\nG. No, no, n0.... he is the sanest man\nin the land.... but the country\ncouldn't stand being strung up to\nthe point he would tune it to.\nR. That I realize,... but how pre-\nvent it?\nG. A little diplomacy does it.\nR. But how convince the people ?\nG, Praise the third-class gentleman\nLaertes for the qualities which the\nthird class people possess. Lower\nthe standard, my hoy; cheapen\nideas. No one knows how to do\nthat better than you do.\nR. And wreck Denmark.\nG. Exactly Let your every other\nword be \" The PeopleH. Flatter\nthem by sympathy, lay it on with\na trowel.... There is no surer way...\nis it not as old as the hills?\nR. Say rather 01der.... it* s as old as\nthe worm under the hills.\nG And therefore sound and ne-\nver to be forgotten.... primitive, and\nso apt to be forgotten because so\nsimple.\nR. But the men of the land, I fear,\nhave too much hard common-sense...\ntoo much old-fashioned loyalty;\nthey will all vote for their old\nmaster* s son.\nG. Not if you persuade their women\nto show them that they, their men\nfolk, are being swindled out of an\nessential of life.\nR. That's impossible.... one can't\nlive in a million houses. Our di-\nplomacy would succeed only while\nthe men were out at work,... when\nthey came home our diplomacy\nwould be laughad away.\nC. Not so quick! You must persuade\ntheir women they too are being\ncheated out of an essential, and\nthat to get this back they need the\nvote. Put the sexes against each\nother. If you were able to awaken\ndiscord between England and us\nyou can do it between man and\nwoman. Will you do it?\nR. (After a momentary thought about\ntechnique). Yes, 1 think I can pro-\nmise that. But you have to take into\ncalculation that it may mean....\nbloodshed.\nG. It will mean no such babyish thing.\nWomen have their own weapons,\nfar deadlier than you seem to\nthink. Why, dear Rosie, you are\nan idealist,\nR. Well, I always like to think the\nbest of women.\nG. Women are just like men. There\nare a hundred women idealists to\nevery ten men who are idealists.\nBut as, thank God, there are a\nmillion men of the other kind, ....\nthe practical kind we want, so\nthere are ten million women equally\n.... open to reason.\nR. (in a burst of abnegation) ; What\na great man you are, Guildernstern!\nENGLAND FOR\nTHE ENGLISH."}]}, {"article_id": "bm-bmtnaau-1918-05-01-c011", "article_bluemountain": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01#c011", "volume": "bmtnaau_1918-05_01", "ocr_source": "OCR Blue Mountain (ALTO), transcription TEI : lignes lb/@facs", "texte_sans_correction": true, "page_debut": "12", "page_fin": "12", "image_debut": 4, "image_fin": 4, "pages_selon": "pagination imprimée relevée dans le METS Blue Mountain (ORDERLABEL) ; [n] = page sans folio restituée", "url_article": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.2.9", "titre_corps": "ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH : A 14th Chapter to \"On the Art of the Theatre\"", "titre_sommaire": "ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH : A 14th Chapter to \"On the Art of the Theatre\"", "signature_source": "Gordon Craig", "controle": "bornes données par la structure logique METS/ALTO de Blue Mountain (blocs ALTO de chaque constituant)", "pages": [{"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "12", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.4", "debut_caractere": 0, "fin_caractere_exclue": 7004, "texte": "ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH.\nby Gordon Craig. A 14 th Chapter\nto \"On the Art of the Theatre\".\nI wrote most of this book between\n1905-7, that is to say eight years\nbefore this war began. I tried to awa-\nken the apathy of England in our branch\nof public service... The Theatre, so\nthat it might invest ability with autho-\nrity. I did not know nor do I know,.,\nnor, it seems, does anyone know, who\nit i 5,... whether People.... Rulers on Indi-\nviduals.... who are privileged to invest\nability with power. I know, however,\nwho it is that robs ability of power.\nInstead of doing as I advocated,\nEngland prefers to invest incapacity with\nauthority.\nI see that a small section of able\nmen in every branch of public service\nare still making the same attempt at the\ntwelfth hour, and that a hundred other\nequally small sections of able men are\nmaking counter-attempts, the majority\nlooking on all the while like a rather\nsurprised and slightly irritated giant....\nwondering what new argument the in-\ncapables will put forward to misrepresent\nand disparage ability; Net result, misrule\nin many branches.\nWe still have the worst theatre in\nEurope. It became so increasingly under\nthe government of some who should never\nhave been in authority on account of\ntheir nationality, and others who should\nnot be in authority now because they\nare dull, and piously obey the 11th com-\nmandment, n Thou shalt non-commit. n\nThese who were allowed to govern\nus were even knighted for their ability\nto ruin the Theatre of England. They\nwere in every way assisted not because\nthey showed genius or talent, but because\nthey showed \" push \" aad were supposed\nto give the Public what it wanted.\nThey were a timid group of men\nwho gave what would pay.... at the\ncost of the Nation. It stands proved\ntoday. The present Theatrical state\nof England is a farce.\nThis isn't the time to think of Thea-\ntres, I am told. Indeed, how true\nthis is. When was it ever the time\nto think of anything except when ra-\nther late the joys of catching a\ntrain just as it is going out of the sta-\ntion I know I know. But catch-\ning a train and building up a national\nlife are two different things surely?\nRisk missing the first, but take no risks\nat all about the second. Am I wrong ?\nThe Theatre... and its Art... is of\nas vital importance to a nation today\nas yesterday.\nEverything is of importance now\nonly twice as important as before.\nThe poor fellows who have lost\ntheir sight in these battles against a foe\nwhom we still refuse to believe is ca-\npable yet of organizing victory, are\nlucky compared with those groups who,\nborn with sight, have refused to see.\nThese groups of unauthorized busy-bo-\ndies whom we have allowed to rule\nover us and postpone everything because\neverything was \" Impossible n these\nmen who would rather see England\nbeaten than open their squeezed up eyes.\nWhy are these groups allowed to\nstill have their fatal say ?\nIf they have been muzzled from\ndamaging any further our Army, our\nNavy and our other principal services,\nthey are still allowed to go unmuzzled\nand snap and bite at our Arts.... and\nthese, if I may be allowed to repeat it,\nare branches (call them minor branches\nif you wish), of Public service. Any\nmen or women who have whole-heart-\nedly devoted their daily lives, their\nhealth, their best, to any branch of Art\nhonestly and not for sake of gain and\nnot with timidity, have been faithful\nPublic servants. Too many so-called\nartists are no such thing. Gain and\ncelebrity being their two ruling passions.\nBut in each branch of Art there have\nbeen one or two men and women who\nhave done their duty ever since they\nfirst put their hands to the task of\nserving honestly the land which gave\nthem birth. These have almost without\nexception been acknowledged by the\nPress and by their fellows, and rejected\nby the 11 Authorities \".... who somehow\nor other in the matter of the public\nservice of Art, seem under the thumb\nof unauthoritative busy-bodies.\nEvery branch of service is of value\nto a nation and should be kept up to\nthe mark : for even if the weak spot be\nbut in a single rope a ship can be sunk :\n....the single loose horse-shoe nail has\nbeen known to lose the whole campaign.\nBut to the point.\nI take no sides. I belong to the\nheart of my nation or nothing. I know\nthat in that heart I shall find every\nman who is good for something\nmaster of his own job and no one else.\nThe rest have to do as they are\ntold ; if the heart stops they are one\nand all lost.\nBut England has not been brought\nup to do as it is told for Demo-\ncracy is so safe it saves 11 every-\nbody's \" face. How we can stand for\nthat before the common enemy over\nthe seas, goodness only knows.\nI admit that it is only a pretence:\n—■ we are not a scrap Democratic at\nheart then why this humbug\nthis ugly pose of hand on the heart and\nthe vulgar protestations ?\n11 But you do not make yourself\nclear. ,f What ? Can I be guilty of\nthe fault of the Democrat ? Then let\nme be clearer.\nI want 'Reality to take the place\nnow occupied by Policy. I want\nreal beings in place of cyphers. Real\nartists honoured and the host of pre-\ntenders put back in their place.\nI want every branch of public service\nfilled with men who are ahead of the\ntimes rather than behind them.\nWhen this is done I and my brother\nartists will not be compared with our\napes and Democracy will no more\ndisturb and ruin our beautiful islands.\nWe glow nowadays about the navy\nand the army and utterly forget that\nthese magnificent services are governed\n.... by Discipline.... authority,... and\nobedience n look slippy, do as you\nare told or clear out of it\n\" Influential \" ladies and gentlemen\nand idlers, ignorant of all things, are no\nlonger allowed to meddle there.\nTheir 11 influence !i must be also re-\nmoved from the vicinity of the Arts.\nThey must resume their place in the\ncrowd. For it is they who brought us\ninto this state of unpreparedness and\nit is they who, since war commenced,\nhave never ceased from putting their\nblight upon every capable man's action\nand every noble and practical plan.\nAuthority must be re-established.\nNot Prussian authority English\nauthority. But Authority..,, which\nmeans that the Rulers must be obeyed.\nInstead of six hundred ruling in their\nmiserable and malicious underhand way...\nPride and Prejudice must clear off.\nWe must reduce the Rulers to ONE.\nOne head to each branch of public\nservice, and this head must be given\nentire authority, and it must not be\ntampered with:.... it must be entire\nand lasting.\nHe must be selected for his Ability\nfor what he has done not for\nhis influence or his gift of the gab, and\nnot because he belongs to a famous\nClub in Pall Mall, Piccadilly or Gar-\nrick Street. When he has been chosen\nhe will know the right men to select\nto carry out the necessary reforms in\nthat branch of Public Service to which\nhe has the honour to belong.\nIn the Theatre of England you must\nsearch for a man who wants nothing\nfor himself,... but nothing short of ALL\nfor the Theatre. Only he can save the\nBritish Theatre."}]}], "pages_ocr_originales": [{"page_pdf": 1, "page_imprimee": "9", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.1", "texte": "HPf IF* l\\/f A OT/\n1 Iff i \\/| \\IKL\nJL JL 1° AA V\nA MONTHLY LEAFLET\nTHE ART OF THE THEATRE\nPRICE ONE PENNY\nVOLUME EIGHT: NUMBER THREE\nADDRESS: BOX 444. FLORENCE\n\n£ 14,647\nYOU ask for Proof that William Blake was a great artist.\nYou have it here. That William Blake died in 1827,\nthat it is more than eighty years ago :... here you have it.\nIt is necessary to kill a great artist to discover our own\ncm A I mPQQ\nPROOF FROM CHRISTIE'S!!!\nThe Celebrated MONEY PROOF ! !\nThe ALL-LOWEST VERY NEARLY ATTAINED.\nCourage, Dear Friends, one Last bold Effort and the Pit is ours.\n£ 14,647 is the sum paid at Christie's last month for a\nfew of Blake's masterpieces for which your ancestors paid\nhim about £ 300 in all; pitying him as an insane man. You\ntherefore make a profit of about £ 14,300. Think of it!...\nsuch a Profit is almost sacred;... weep, crocodiles.... but\nwhence came those long ears of yours?\nNow go and read GILCHRIST'S LIFE OF WILLIAM\nBLAKE Published by John Lane. Continue to hold the\nopinion that your treatment of his work while he lived was\nanything short of ignorant, lest we accuse you of ruining your\nwhole NATION not through Ignorance but through a hatred\nof great things and great mem.\n\" And if a Great man di arise, my dear Semar, do\nyou know what we should do with him?... we should\nKILL HIM \". So said a Patriotic Englishman to me last\nyear, a nice fe110w.,., all of us like him: he is charming, too.\nThis not uttered regretfully, comically, as one who slips\non orange peel.... n0.... uttered fiendishly and with all the con-\ncentrated fury of the dwarf's advocate. The fury of the Little\nman is the most hideous kind of all. His fury is a pity,\nbut not fatal; for, when a great man arises he will be the\nfirst to hail him.... he always does : like Wells, like all so-\ncialistic souls. They cursed Buonaparte and obey him best.\nIt is only your Tallyrands, your silent quiet knaves, who trap\nNapoleons ; and if you drag down a master statesman you\nwill drag down a seer like Blake, like Whitman, and har-\nrass the minor artists such as Chatterton, Francis Thompson,\nDowson, and a hundred hundred others.\n(Continued on page 10)\n\nTO THE PUBLIC.\nO REMEMBER o\nALWAYS to make ONE more\nBOLD EFFORT to achieve\nsome fresh noise*\nNever forget this... One more bold\neffort.... does it. Kill beauty and\nachieve Vulgarity by one trumpet more...\none more howl of Ignorance... above\nall destroy Blakes and Van Goghs,\noh most moral distinguished joy-riders, by\nyour funnyness. Never cease. Christie and\nTime will prove you wrong..... never\nmind; be drunken and be damned,\nmost noble Public, you ruler of all\nbut yourself, Kill to prove the kind-\nness, not the cruelty, of nations; to\nprove the beauty of Democracy; for\nit was certainly not the spirit of auto-\ncracy which caused George 111 to utter\nthe now celebrated mot reprinted here\non page 10. It was only George Ill's\ndemocratic funk which loosened the\nshudder. Boredom such as his is the\nvery essence of Democracy. I mean of\ncourse modern and popular Democracy,\nnot the noble Democracy of Athens and\nWhitman : Athens which, by the way,\nstabbed one Socrates in the back.\nBoredom, the pose or the mood of\nthose too weak to command and too\nweak to obey.\n\nLIBERTY : EQUALITY : FRATERNITY\n„ Libertas est potestas faciendi id\nquod jure licet.\nLiberty is the power of doing that\nwhich the Law permits.\n\nEQUALITY. (A SAILOR SPEAKS):\nCaptain Marryat.\nThe service is a rough, but a good\nschool, where everybody finds his 1e-\nve1,... not the level of equality, but\nthe level which his natural talent and\nacquirements will rise or sink, him to, in\nproportion as they are plus or minus.\n* * * *\nEquality! I mean no disrespect to\nyour father, Jack, but he must be\neither mad or foolish, if at his age\nhe has not discovered that there is no\nsuch thing in existence.\n\nFRATERNITY.\nBeranger.\nPauvres models, tant de haine vous lasse;\nVous ne goutez qu' un penihle sommeil.\nD'un glohe etroit divisez mieux I'espace;\nChacun de vous aura place au soleil.\nTous atteles au char de la puissance,\nDu vrai honheur vous quittez le chemin.\nPeuples, formez une sainte alliance,\nEt donnez-nous la main."}, {"page_pdf": 2, "page_imprimee": "10", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.2", "texte": "DEGRADE FIRST THE ARTS IF\nWilliam Blake.\n\nThen explain how such men are allowed to spend their\nRhetoric in the service of the All-Lowest.... dragging down...\nfilling the mob with a grand idea of itself.\n■ The people have been nothing; they must be every-\nthing n. Two lies in a single double-jointed sentence, for the\nPeople have been everything; take care lest they become\nworse than nothing.\nThe Living Arts, the Living Artists must be honoured\nby England, (not merely by the Christie thumb mark eighty\nyears too late). There must be no more excuses, no more\nof that kind of shirking which George 111 indulged in to the\ngravest loss to his nation when he was shewn some drawings\nby William Blake, and said, \" Take them away. Take\nthem away!!\" (vide Gilchrist, 1907 edition, page 265).\nI am one of the lower class who write this. I hold\nthat there are three classes. I am of the third. I have al-\nways thought and felt what I say. Our duty is to become\neverything we can become, not by push but by being no-\nthing :... that is by minding our own business. Our first\nduty is to feed and clothe one another.\nGILCHRIST'S \"THE LIFE OF\nWILLIAM BLAKE. \" {John Lane).\nA REVELATION\nWhat ? how can it be a revelation ?\nthe book has been known for years.\nOh yes, KNOWN,... as George 111\nknew his foremost Poetic Genius,\nKNOWN as the Blind Man sees eve-\nrything, and the Deaf hear everything,\nYes, known as we know a storm is\ncoming but are too lazy to really take\nit in. Take it in now, Children,...\nTake it in... Out of the Storm. Take\nin William Blake and learn as quickly\nas you can everything he can tell you.\n... Quickly, quickly, believe all he tells\nyou : it's true... He doesn't teaze a\ntired world with Politics, nor with\nReligion, nor with Art. Nor with\nmoralizing, nor with a Patriotism based\non Profit and Propaganda; nor with\nanything. He is just a great Poet, a\ngreat Artist, a perfectly sane thinker, and\nabout the sanest Englishman we ever\nhad. Take him to Court, to the Em-\nbassy, to the Consulate, to the Church,\nto the Salons, and buy every copy you\ncan get hold of of this life of his, and\ngive Wells, Shaw, Futurists and all\nof the modern men a rest for a while.\nAfter you've understood Blake you'll\nsee where Whitman is; then the rest\nof u5.... And do stop thinking, and\ncomparing and discussing the merits of\nDwarfs when these Giants stand there\noffering you a NEW WORLD.\n«I For THE CONSTRUCTORS OF\nTHE WORLD are not Wells, not\nShaw, not Wilson, not Clemenceau,\nno, nor the great Alfred.... and not\na Committee.... rest to these perturbed\nspirits.,., but are William Blake and\nWalt Whitman and their kith and kin.\nWhitman sang songs for Democracy.\nHow is it the swing is so regal ?\nNo one yet has ever explained this.\nWilliam Blake didn't bother his\nhead about Democracy... and yet good\nDemocrats find his Songs Divine.\nThen perhaps p-e-r-h-a-p-s there is\nsomething which can become even more\npopular, less vexing and twenty times\nas successful as Democracy... as Aristo-\ncracy.... as Autocracy and all the rest of\nthe Hocus-Pocus. Why not have\nTHAT in place of Fudge as a\nfoundation to a new world?\nC'EST L'IMAGINATION\nQUI GOUVERNE LE\nGENRE HUMAIN.\nNapoleon I.\n\nGROUND PLAN OF THE OLD THEATRE OF\nCOVENT GARDEN: LONDON.\nDEGRADE FIRST THE ARTS IF\nYOU WOULD MANKIND DEGRADE"}, {"page_pdf": 3, "page_imprimee": "11", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.3", "texte": "YOU WOULD MANKIND DEGRADE\nGEORGE III AND BLAKE\nIT is the gravest responsibility to be a King. So grave\nthat few monarchs succeed in the difficult task.\nTo be grave enough one must be able to be merry.\nLouis XIV, Charles II and Henry Vli I excelled in gra-\nvity and laughed often enough. All real Monarchs.\nBut George 111, well, we know as little about him as\nhe knew about William Blake: our fault, but of little con-\nsequence ; whereas George Ill's ignorance of William Blake\nwas full of unfortunate consequence to us all.\nHIS IGNORANCE OF WILLIAM BLAKE is what\nmatters. Never mind whether he cared for Blake's WORK\nor not;, that is the secondary question. Blake was one his\nsubjects,... one of the Sons of the Land of which he,\nKing George, was the Father.\nTo have brushed away the works with 'Take them\naway, take them away* was bad enough,... bad manners in\na great gentleman: not to have regretted his hasty act\nwas worse For to be proud of its faults is not the prero-\ngative of majesty. But worst of ail was it to have failed to\nremember that William Blake was one of his Sons, now\nproved at Christie's Auction Room to have possessed a\nmost successful genius in his person... now therefore proved\nto have been worthy of, at any rate, as much Royal patro-\nnage as Charles II bestowed upon Purcell or Louis XIV\nupon Scarron.\nPoor King to be blamed for what was probably the\nfault of his courtiers.\n* * *\nPoor Courtiers to be blamed for what was possibly the\nfault of the weather....\nWe can leave William Blake and the weather together.\n\nTHE PLOT IS NO THINNER.\nO Rosenkrantz and Guildenstcin. O\n,f Something is rotten in the state of\nDenmark \"•\nR. He is mad.\nG. No, my dear, do not let us say\nthat. The danger to Denmark is\ntoo great for us. Think of what\nit would mean to us if he came\nto the throne?\nR. But how can that be prevented?\n.... he has the people's voice.\nG. Exactly. But you and I know how\nto manage it so that the voice of\nthe people .... ehem, the voice of\nGod, .... shall be raised in favour\nof another,\nR. Who?\nG. Laertes.\nR. What? .... that awful person?\nG. Awful or not, he has the primary\nqualities necessary for a modern\nleader.\nR. And they are....?\nG. Weakness, fear of us, and no sense\nof humour,\nR. There you are right. Prince Ham-\nlet is intolerable,... A pack of faulty\nideals, honest, and always laughing.\nAs I said, he* s mad.\nG. No, no, n0.... he is the sanest man\nin the land.... but the country\ncouldn't stand being strung up to\nthe point he would tune it to.\nR. That I realize,... but how pre-\nvent it?\nG. A little diplomacy does it.\nR. But how convince the people ?\nG, Praise the third-class gentleman\nLaertes for the qualities which the\nthird class people possess. Lower\nthe standard, my hoy; cheapen\nideas. No one knows how to do\nthat better than you do.\nR. And wreck Denmark.\nG. Exactly Let your every other\nword be \" The PeopleH. Flatter\nthem by sympathy, lay it on with\na trowel.... There is no surer way...\nis it not as old as the hills?\nR. Say rather 01der.... it* s as old as\nthe worm under the hills.\nG And therefore sound and ne-\nver to be forgotten.... primitive, and\nso apt to be forgotten because so\nsimple.\nR. But the men of the land, I fear,\nhave too much hard common-sense...\ntoo much old-fashioned loyalty;\nthey will all vote for their old\nmaster* s son.\nG. Not if you persuade their women\nto show them that they, their men\nfolk, are being swindled out of an\nessential of life.\nR. That's impossible.... one can't\nlive in a million houses. Our di-\nplomacy would succeed only while\nthe men were out at work,... when\nthey came home our diplomacy\nwould be laughad away.\nC. Not so quick! You must persuade\ntheir women they too are being\ncheated out of an essential, and\nthat to get this back they need the\nvote. Put the sexes against each\nother. If you were able to awaken\ndiscord between England and us\nyou can do it between man and\nwoman. Will you do it?\nR. (After a momentary thought about\ntechnique). Yes, 1 think I can pro-\nmise that. But you have to take into\ncalculation that it may mean....\nbloodshed.\nG. It will mean no such babyish thing.\nWomen have their own weapons,\nfar deadlier than you seem to\nthink. Why, dear Rosie, you are\nan idealist,\nR. Well, I always like to think the\nbest of women.\nG. Women are just like men. There\nare a hundred women idealists to\nevery ten men who are idealists.\nBut as, thank God, there are a\nmillion men of the other kind, ....\nthe practical kind we want, so\nthere are ten million women equally\n.... open to reason.\nR. (in a burst of abnegation) ; What\na great man you are, Guildernstern!\nENGLAND FOR\nTHE ENGLISH."}, {"page_pdf": 4, "page_imprimee": "12", "url_page": "https://bluemountain.princeton.edu/bluemtn/?a=d&d=bmtnaau191805-01.1.4", "texte": "ENGLAND FOR THE ENGLISH.\nby Gordon Craig. A 14 th Chapter\nto \"On the Art of the Theatre\".\nI wrote most of this book between\n1905-7, that is to say eight years\nbefore this war began. I tried to awa-\nken the apathy of England in our branch\nof public service... The Theatre, so\nthat it might invest ability with autho-\nrity. I did not know nor do I know,.,\nnor, it seems, does anyone know, who\nit i 5,... whether People.... Rulers on Indi-\nviduals.... who are privileged to invest\nability with power. I know, however,\nwho it is that robs ability of power.\nInstead of doing as I advocated,\nEngland prefers to invest incapacity with\nauthority.\nI see that a small section of able\nmen in every branch of public service\nare still making the same attempt at the\ntwelfth hour, and that a hundred other\nequally small sections of able men are\nmaking counter-attempts, the majority\nlooking on all the while like a rather\nsurprised and slightly irritated giant....\nwondering what new argument the in-\ncapables will put forward to misrepresent\nand disparage ability; Net result, misrule\nin many branches.\nWe still have the worst theatre in\nEurope. It became so increasingly under\nthe government of some who should never\nhave been in authority on account of\ntheir nationality, and others who should\nnot be in authority now because they\nare dull, and piously obey the 11th com-\nmandment, n Thou shalt non-commit. n\nThese who were allowed to govern\nus were even knighted for their ability\nto ruin the Theatre of England. They\nwere in every way assisted not because\nthey showed genius or talent, but because\nthey showed \" push \" aad were supposed\nto give the Public what it wanted.\nThey were a timid group of men\nwho gave what would pay.... at the\ncost of the Nation. It stands proved\ntoday. The present Theatrical state\nof England is a farce.\nThis isn't the time to think of Thea-\ntres, I am told. Indeed, how true\nthis is. When was it ever the time\nto think of anything except when ra-\nther late the joys of catching a\ntrain just as it is going out of the sta-\ntion I know I know. But catch-\ning a train and building up a national\nlife are two different things surely?\nRisk missing the first, but take no risks\nat all about the second. Am I wrong ?\nThe Theatre... and its Art... is of\nas vital importance to a nation today\nas yesterday.\nEverything is of importance now\nonly twice as important as before.\nThe poor fellows who have lost\ntheir sight in these battles against a foe\nwhom we still refuse to believe is ca-\npable yet of organizing victory, are\nlucky compared with those groups who,\nborn with sight, have refused to see.\nThese groups of unauthorized busy-bo-\ndies whom we have allowed to rule\nover us and postpone everything because\neverything was \" Impossible n these\nmen who would rather see England\nbeaten than open their squeezed up eyes.\nWhy are these groups allowed to\nstill have their fatal say ?\nIf they have been muzzled from\ndamaging any further our Army, our\nNavy and our other principal services,\nthey are still allowed to go unmuzzled\nand snap and bite at our Arts.... and\nthese, if I may be allowed to repeat it,\nare branches (call them minor branches\nif you wish), of Public service. Any\nmen or women who have whole-heart-\nedly devoted their daily lives, their\nhealth, their best, to any branch of Art\nhonestly and not for sake of gain and\nnot with timidity, have been faithful\nPublic servants. Too many so-called\nartists are no such thing. Gain and\ncelebrity being their two ruling passions.\nBut in each branch of Art there have\nbeen one or two men and women who\nhave done their duty ever since they\nfirst put their hands to the task of\nserving honestly the land which gave\nthem birth. These have almost without\nexception been acknowledged by the\nPress and by their fellows, and rejected\nby the 11 Authorities \".... who somehow\nor other in the matter of the public\nservice of Art, seem under the thumb\nof unauthoritative busy-bodies.\nEvery branch of service is of value\nto a nation and should be kept up to\nthe mark : for even if the weak spot be\nbut in a single rope a ship can be sunk :\n....the single loose horse-shoe nail has\nbeen known to lose the whole campaign.\nBut to the point.\nI take no sides. I belong to the\nheart of my nation or nothing. I know\nthat in that heart I shall find every\nman who is good for something\nmaster of his own job and no one else.\nThe rest have to do as they are\ntold ; if the heart stops they are one\nand all lost.\nBut England has not been brought\nup to do as it is told for Demo-\ncracy is so safe it saves 11 every-\nbody's \" face. How we can stand for\nthat before the common enemy over\nthe seas, goodness only knows.\nI admit that it is only a pretence:\n—■ we are not a scrap Democratic at\nheart then why this humbug\nthis ugly pose of hand on the heart and\nthe vulgar protestations ?\n11 But you do not make yourself\nclear. ,f What ? Can I be guilty of\nthe fault of the Democrat ? Then let\nme be clearer.\nI want 'Reality to take the place\nnow occupied by Policy. I want\nreal beings in place of cyphers. Real\nartists honoured and the host of pre-\ntenders put back in their place.\nI want every branch of public service\nfilled with men who are ahead of the\ntimes rather than behind them.\nWhen this is done I and my brother\nartists will not be compared with our\napes and Democracy will no more\ndisturb and ruin our beautiful islands.\nWe glow nowadays about the navy\nand the army and utterly forget that\nthese magnificent services are governed\n.... by Discipline.... authority,... and\nobedience n look slippy, do as you\nare told or clear out of it\n\" Influential \" ladies and gentlemen\nand idlers, ignorant of all things, are no\nlonger allowed to meddle there.\nTheir 11 influence !i must be also re-\nmoved from the vicinity of the Arts.\nThey must resume their place in the\ncrowd. For it is they who brought us\ninto this state of unpreparedness and\nit is they who, since war commenced,\nhave never ceased from putting their\nblight upon every capable man's action\nand every noble and practical plan.\nAuthority must be re-established.\nNot Prussian authority English\nauthority. But Authority..,, which\nmeans that the Rulers must be obeyed.\nInstead of six hundred ruling in their\nmiserable and malicious underhand way...\nPride and Prejudice must clear off.\nWe must reduce the Rulers to ONE.\nOne head to each branch of public\nservice, and this head must be given\nentire authority, and it must not be\ntampered with:.... it must be entire\nand lasting.\nHe must be selected for his Ability\nfor what he has done not for\nhis influence or his gift of the gab, and\nnot because he belongs to a famous\nClub in Pall Mall, Piccadilly or Gar-\nrick Street. When he has been chosen\nhe will know the right men to select\nto carry out the necessary reforms in\nthat branch of Public Service to which\nhe has the honour to belong.\nIn the Theatre of England you must\nsearch for a man who wants nothing\nfor himself,... but nothing short of ALL\nfor the Theatre. Only he can save the\nBritish Theatre.\n\nALL RIGHTS RESERVED MAY 1918\nGerente responsabile: Giulio V anzi.\nTipografia Giuntina. Firenze.\nPRICE ONE PENNY."}]}