_March, 1914._ Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIEN describes Mr. JOHN REDMOND as "brother to the middle-aged sea-serpent from the County Clare." Mr. JOHN REDMOND denies that he is a sea-serpent. Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIEN, having denounced this denial as "the last effort of a defeated dastard," resigns his seat for Cork City. Mr. O'BRIEN is re-elected without a contest. _April, 1914._ Mr. WILLIAM O'BRIEN in an impassioned speech advocates conciliation all round in Ireland, and refers to Mr. JOHN REDMOND as "a moth-eaten, moss-gathering malingerer of unparalleled ferocity." Mr. REDMOND is seen to smile. Mr. O'BRIEN, declaring that he has never been so much insulted in his life, resigns his seat for Cork City. Mr. O'BRIEN is re-elected without a contest. _May, 1914._ An Alderman of Cork fails to take off his hat to Mr. O'BRIEN. Mr. O'BRIEN summons a meeting of his supporters and, in a five-hours' speech, states that, in spite of the unexampled infamy of Mr. REDMOND, he will never abandon his efforts for Irish unity. Mr. REDMOND says nothing. Mr. O'BRIEN states that "the truckling truculence of a mock-modest monster of meretricious mendacity cannot be allowed to prevail against a policy of sober and sympathetic silence." Mr. REDMOND having abstained from a reply, Mr. O'BRIEN resigns his seat for Cork City and is shortly afterwards re-elected without a contest. _June, 1914._ Mr. ASQUITH, in moving the Second Reading of the Home Rule Bill, does not mention Mr. O'BRIEN, who swoons in his place and is carried speechless from the House of Commons. On the following day Mr. O'BRIEN issues to the world a manifesto of 60,000 words, in which he describes Mr. REDMOND as "a palsied purveyor of pledge-breaking platitudes," and announces that the Irish question can be settled only by the good will of men of all parties. Mr. REDMOND takes no notice. Mr. O'BRIEN declares that he can no longer pursue a policy of conciliation and mildness, and resigns his seat for Cork City as a protest against the "frenzied flaunting of flattery and folly" in which, he says, Mr. REDMOND spends his time. Mr. O'BRIEN, having been re-elected without a contest, immediately re-resigns twelve times in advance. * * * * * CINEMA NEWS. Final preparations have now been made to film Mr. THORNTON'S first day as General Manager of the Great Eastern Railway. By kind permission of Lord CLAUD HAMILTON representatives of all the other railway companies are to be present to take notes, like the foreign military attaches in a war. A good "movie" should result. * * * * *