Movie Makers (Jan-May 1928)

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(Adagio; doloroso) (piu e piu animato) (a tempo; fortissimo) (Shake the rafters!) A BAS LA BUNK! By Jane Budden Mine ears have heard the promise of the Passing of the Pie That heretofore and up-to-now has served the Purpose High Of mussing up the features of the movie Comic Guy ! — A bas la Custard Pie! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Passee la Custard Pie! I hear that movie actresses in truth at last have seen The error of their ways, and now they really-really mean No more to drip their sorrowings upon the Silver Screen In gobs of Glycerine. Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! A bas la Gliss-ser-reen! Tired Bus'ness Man, pray hurl at me what names you'd wish to hurl: Pray dub me Sour Pickles — Lemon — Grouch — Crape-Hanger — Churl ! I would a flaming banner to a Grateful World unfurl: — A bas la Bathing Girl! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Let's drown that Bathing Girl! Let's hope Will Hays, the Man-on-Top, will sometime place a ban On starting off a picture with the name of Ev'ry Man Who had a Finger in the Pie, — and those who Also-Ran! "A bas!" — shouts Ev'ry Fan. Glory, glory Hallelujah! Bill, don't let the Authors fool yuh! Hordes will holler hallelujah When you stick up this ban. As lies the body of John Brown, long since gone to his rest, So dead and buried lie ere long la Awful Heaving Breast, That Standardized Emoting of a Movie Heart distressed! — OF CR-R-R1MES LA GOL-DERN-DEST! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! Glory, glory Hallelujah! A bas la Heaving Breast! This rank, unholy plagiarism comes to ending now. (I'll bet there're corrugations on the high and noble brow Of her whose Mighty Pen her Muse did mightily endow :Yes, Ju-lee-a Ward Howe.) Glory, glory Hallelujah ! Shout apologies to Julia; Stamp the feet to beat peculiar To Ju-lee-a Ward Howe ! One-hundred-ten