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Gilbert and Sullivan purists will hate the The Hot Mikado, at Washington's Ford's Theatre and apparently on its way to Broadway. Musically, they will deplore the conversion of W.S. Gilbert's candybox-pretty score into swing, jazz and gospel arrangements that bounce like the 1940s. Lyrically, they will ask themselves which is worse, rewriting some of Arthur Sullivan's urbane verse (one big laugh comes when Katisha, a scorned lady of the court played as a black street diva by Loretta Devine, screeches, "You piss me off!") or rendering much of what is left all but unintelligible through...
...Candybox-Cover Girls. The Weekly's advertising was ebbing and its circulation (still a giant 9,966,689) had dipped under that of its chief competitor, This Week. To pull it out of the slump, Publisher Hearst called in a magazine specialist, Ernest V. Heyn, 47, who founded and edited Modern Screen for Dell publications, started Sport for Macfadden. Some drastic changes showed up in last week's issue of the Weekly. Heyn got rid of the Weekly's old-fashioned clothes by dumping the wispy, candybox-cover girls. A new editorial diet replaced the oldtime brew...
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