Word: aesop
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...Aesop's fables, Members accuse Belly of being a fat, lazy good-for-nothing, who does nothing but consume food...
...oldest books in the world, antedating the New Testament a couple of centuries, quite as old as Aesop's Fables, which it much resembles. Two thousand and more years ago it was written (some say) in the fastnesses of Kashmir, by whom one cannot know, but surely by a great man, for its stories are retold the world over. Never before has it been completely translated from its original Sanskrit into English...
Other familiar fables are recognized: the rabbit who slew a lion by showing him his rival in a well (on the principle of Aesop's dog-and-bone tale) ; the gluttonous heron that was strangled by a crab; the mice that gnawed elephants free; the bird with the golden dung (goose of golden eggs) ; the ass in the tiger skin. Translator Ryder's performance is best judged by inspection of the neat economy of some of the interlarded jingles...
...Significance. Aesop moralized upon Nature. Fabre scrutinized, dramatized, "civilized" her. Melville made her whale an effigy of the wrath of Yahveh. Maeterlinck superimposed upon her an improbable mysticism...
Three other pictures have been secured: An "Aesop Fable" in animated cartoons; another action picture of "Broncho Busting"; and a Ben Turpin comedy "Three Foolish Wives", a burlesque of Elinor Glyn's "Three Weeks". No pictures will be shown until about 8 o'clock, but the returns will start coming in over the special wire at 6 o'clock and will be continued as late as the audience desires. The Crimson Ramblers Orchestra will play during the program, which will be open only to Union members...