Evening star., 1935-10-20
Magazine Section

trouble ABOUT. lie S the OeSCenQant OIL great
artist called Ell Greco
1T wouldn't hurt to go to the moon?"
I'VE don't know Some people say yes -
some people say no. They've sent mice round"
Mice that have gone round the Moon!"
They get broken up, poor little beasties!
They don't know how to hold on when the
bumps come. That's why there's all this talk
of sending man. He'd know how to hold
on.
He'd have to be brave. wouldn't he3 =.
wish could fly round the moon"
That in time, my dear. Won't. you come
back to your history pictures again?"
I'm glad didn't live in the old world l
know that John Cabal and his airmen tidied
It up. Did you see John Cabal, great grand
dad?"
you can see him in your pictures, my
dear"
But you saw him when he lived, you really
SaW him."
Yes. l saw the great John Cabal with
my own eyes when l was a little boy. A
lean brown old man with hair as white as
mine He was the great-grandfather of or
Oswald Cabal, the President of our Council"
Oswald Caba seated in his private room in
the administration Offices of the city of
Everytown. The room is of the same easy
style of architecture as the preceding scene.
There are no windows and no corners, but
across kind of animated frieze, band of
wall above Cabal's head, there sweep phan-
tom clouds and waves waving trees clusters
of flowers and the like in a perpetual silent
sequence of decorative effects. There is large
televisor disc and telephone and other appa-
ratus on the desk before Cabal.
Oswald Cabal is calmer. youngerlooking
version of his ancestor. His hair is dark and,
like all hair in the new world, trinity dressed.
His costume is of white silken material with
very slight and simple embroidery. His arm
carries light gauntlet and on the gauntlet is
a kind of identification disc on which one
reads the words: Oswald Cabal - President
of the Council of Direction" Such identifca-
ton plates in the wrists or arms are usual
feature of the costume of the period
Cabal is in conference with two engineers.
They wear dark and simple clothes in the
oad-shouldered fashion of the age In an
age of mechanical perfection there is no need
for overalls and grease-proof clothing One
sits on a chair of modernst FORM The other
leans familiarly against table.
Cabal Then take it this Space Gun has
passed all its preliminary trials and that
nothing remains now but the selection of Those
who are to CO."
First Engineer: That's going to be the
trouble"
Second Engineer: There are thousands of
young men and young women applying.
never dreamt the moon was so attractive"
First Engineer Practically the gun is per-
feet now There are risks but reasonable risks.
And the position of the moon in the next three
or four months gives us the best conditions
for getting there. 1t is only the choice of the
two now that matters"
Cabal "Well?"
First Engineer: There are going to be diff
ficulties. That man Theotocopulos is talking
on the radio about it,
Cabal Hes fantastic creature"
Second Engineer: "Yes, but he is making
trouble. 1t is not going to be easy to choose
these young people"
Cabal: with all those thousands offering9"
First Engineer: 1--WE have looked into thou
sands of cases. We have rejected everyone of
imperfect health. Or anyone who had friends
who objected. And the fact is, Sir, - we wish