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A.P.H. was never better. His satiric jingles had a near-Gilbertian nip & skip. After his first jab, a hilarious hymn to The Good Old Days ("The women wore a little more and beer was alcoholic"), he quickly took a swipe at Socialism: We love our country but we hate The swollen octopus, the State That fills our stomachs well enough But robs the soul of precious stuff...
Sleek, Bourbon-faced John Kendrick Bangs, who died in 1922, was a humorist, a lecturer, an editor, a critic, a librettist, a politician-and successful as all six. Lillian Russell played in his chipper Gilbertian revision of The School for Scandal. As a lecturer he earned $500 a week for discreet blends of laughter and sentiment on such subjects as Salubrities (nice celebrities) I Have Met. As an editor he diapered the old Life's first years, brightened up "The Editor's Drawer" of Harper's Monthly, ran Harper's Weekly until Colonel George Harvey crowded...
...Importance of Being Earnest, talked up in academic circles as the best farce in the English language, everywhere fails to treat its Gilbertian plot with Gilbertian high spirits. As artificial as the Yellowed Nineties which gave it birth, it has the pasty look and studied jauntiness of an elderly fop. The steady ticktock of its epigrams is broken only when one of them happens to chime. As Wilde said of the youthful Max Beerbohm, the gods have endowed the play's elegant, orchidaceous young men with the gift of perpetual...
Leading comedian of the D'Oyly Carte Company, Green has chosen for his address the subject "From Street Clothes to Character." That is his title, and within that title he plans to tell of the methods by which he creates and portrays the Gilbertian characters...
...Admiral's sense of humor is more Minsky than Gilbertian: the gunrooms and wardrooms that housed him and his mates were no places for sisters, cousins or aunts. Even as a midshipman he was a hearty: sometimes the sea made him sick, but never thoughts of home. He has not forgotten the name of a single one of his ships, or where they took him-the Mediterranean, the Pacific, the Bering-Sea, the South Seas-and every ship, cruise and station gave him an anecdote-souvenir to tuck away in his sea chest...