Oda a un director artístico

Ode to an Art Director

A Streatham bedroom with a Grecian pillar,

A cock-eyed arch to each suburban villa,

A pair of Woolworth's Mings—

These darn-fool things, remind me of you.

Those cosy lounges, built in easy stages,

Are copied from the front of Mr. Drage's,

And how each stair-case swings:

These crazy things, remind me of you.

How strange! How swell! If you could

build—a set to shoot in, so

the walls could not waggle to and fro,

A lovely wrinkled photographic backing

whose edges show whenever we start

tracking,

Oh, how the ghost of them clings!

These half-wit things, remind me of you.

W. F. E.

World Film News and Television Progress, 1938.

Notas:

!.- Streatham es un barrio situado al sur de Londres.

2.- Woolworth's Mings pueden ser unos jarrones de la dinastía china Ming, de los grandes almacenes estadounidenses Woolworth.

3,- Puede referirse a Geoffrey Drage, un político inglés implicado en la erradicación de la probreza en su país.