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...there are three most excellent characterizations: the Lord High Executioner, the Lord High Everything Else, and the Mikado. Mr. William Danforth, as the Mikado, is a player most perfectly in the Gilbertian tradition. His devastating Oriental grin stretches permanently from ear to ear; he rocks with noiseless merriment as Ko-Ko tells of the deadly snickersnee; he recites the list of hand-tailored punishments aimiably through his teeth, till suddenly his blood-curdling laugh, like Mephistopheles, rips up and down the baritone scale. He is so like a scoundrel, and so like a benevolent bishop at a christening...
...week in the most tuneful of the Savoyard operettas, The Mikado. This opera is the one in which NankiPoo (William Williams), son of the Mikado of Japan (John Barclay), disguises himself as a wandering minstrel to woo Yum-Yum (Lois Bennett), ward and fiancee of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (Fred Wright). By crossing the palm of the stately grafter, Pooh-Bah (William Gordon), whose ancestry is so proud that he was "born sneering," they avoid one tangle of legal red tape only to discover themselves enmeshed in another. Not till the exalted Mikado himself descends upon...
...Bill in "The Better 'Ole", Ko-Ko in the "Mikado", and his present role as Lutz in the "Student Prince", Mr. Hopper declared were probably the most interesting characters of the many that he has portrayed...
...made his debut on the stage almost 50 years ago, appearing in "Our Boys." He has had companies of his own, and has also appeared with such old-timers as Weber and Fields. He is perhaps best known for his acting as Edward in "The Pirates of Penzance." Ko-Ko, in the "Mikado" is another role that he has pearance has been made in "The Better "Ole" in 1918, and with Francis Wilson in "Ermine...
Wisely the emphasis is placed on melody. On the merits of this melody, comment is superfluous. On its delivery, compliment is due. Marguerite Namara, lately with the Opera Comique in Paris, adds beauty and a considerable lyric ability. Lupino Lane is an agile Ko-Ko. William Danforth, standard Mikado of this century in the U. S., is excellent as usual. The acting of Tom Burke in the part of NankiPoo was seriously displeasing, but his excellent concert voice paid back the debt...