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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, that Gilbert...
When little Ko-sen falls so sick that no pellets from his family's traditional medicine-chest seem to help, his family sends him to the temple, the traditional cure-all for human ills. Recovered, Ko-sen is now a temple-boy, belonging to the pot-bellied gilt gods. Though given to the gods, he feels no dedication in himself, contrives after a time to run away with Fah-li, another temple boy. In the first town they come to they hear a revolutionary orator recruiting volunteers. Ko-sen is much impressed by the new ideas of liberation from traditional...
...boys march north, join in a great battle. Nothing comes of it but corpses. Ko-sen begins to realize that human liberation is more complicated than revolutionary orators would have him think. And Fah-li has been wounded desperately. Ko-sen forsakes the army, goes to nurse his friend in the dreaded white men's hospital. But the white doctor's loving care of dying Fah-li opens Ko-sen's eyes, gives them a new slant on life. Home he goes, begging food & clothing by the way. When he arrives, he is clad in Revolutionary leggings, Christian coat, Temple...
...Illinois, T. J. Hawkins, Westbord, Ont. Canada, B. F. Hazen, Cambridge, R. W. Hidy, Cambridge, E. Higginbothom, Millbury, M. B. Howell, New York City, Noyenen Huang, Canton, China, K. D. Hutchinson, Greenwood, J. Irving, Cupar Fife, Scotland, G. S. Jackson, Portland, Maine, R. T. Kimberlin, Danville, Indiana, Son Kuan Ko. Hunan, China, A. Korb, Dorchester, D. H. Leiffer, Los Angeles, California, J. Leinbach, Phila., Pennsylvania, E. M. Lindsay, Oo. Annagh, N. Ire., R. W. Logan, Richmond, Virginia, Theodore Norman, Brookline, J. E. O'Loughlin, Somerville, H. W. O'Neill, Sydney, Australis, P. F. Pearson, Keene, New Hampshire, R. A. Phillips...
...Japanese cities we can have the above objects realized and secure peace; they will only make innocent civilians suffer. That is what the Japanese army has done and is going to do in Manchuria, and that will never, as far as the world sees, justify its ends. S. Y. Ko...