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There were empty seats in London's Adelphi Theater a fortnight ago, and those loyalists who had come were applauding their own memories as much as the D'Oyly Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's Mikado. Listeners knew not just Nanki-Poo's Wandering Minstrel ballad by heart, they knew Pooh-Bah's dialogue. They would have grumbled if any of the costumes, designed by Charles Ricketts in 1926, had been changed. But of course, there were no changes...
...well be underground, and who never would be missed." Spinning impishly about the stage in much the same gyrations that the great Martyn Green had learned from Sir Henry Lytton (inherited by Lytton from the original Ko-Ko, George Grossmith, who had learned his stage business from Director W.S. Gilbert himself in 1885), he doomed "that singular anomaly, the striking railway-ist-I know he 'II not be missed, he never will be missed." Londoners, plagued by labor squabbles that shut down commuter trains, laughed wryly...
Claire loves Zack and Zack loves Claire. Her career in television, his as a doctor are both going nicely, and they have just bought this adorable house (a little too expensive, but why not?) where they can listen to Gilbert and Sullivan records and maybe start to have little Claires and Zacks who will be as squeaky-nice and handsomely boring as they...
...which went on to become American institutions. He could write not only belt-em-outs, but gentle ballads like "Life's a Funny Proposition," done subtlely and straightforwardly by Osmond, and wonderful comic creations such as "Captain of a Ten Day Boat" a parody of all those tongue-twisting Gilbert and Sullivan patter songs, which Jack Bittner delivers impeccably. Eddie Sauter and Mack Schlefer's orchestrations add greatly to the period flavor...
...caught fire, the result of old, faulty wiring, which caused damage of $2 million to the 35-room house and $600,000 to furnishings. Few of the nearly 6,000 items of F.D.R. memorabilia were beyond repair. Custodians of the mansion raced in to retrieve items ranging from a Gilbert Stuart portrait of a Roosevelt forebear to F.D.R.'s mother's 3-ft. potted palm...