Serious problems—economics and the price of margarine—
Occupy the hours of leisure that he snatches from the screen;
But the works of William Shakespeare he dismisses as inane,
And he harbours no ambition to enact the princely Dane.
This momentous revelation, little birds reveal to me,
Has produced a spasm of anguish in the heart of Sidney Lee;
Wails arise from Henry Ainley, Benson, Lang and Moscovitch,
Though so far no word of protest emanates from Little Tich.
Still, by way of compensation for this ruthless turning down
Of the chief Elizabethan by a neo-Georgian clown,