Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mikado. It has been nearly six years since this most noted of all the great Gilbert and Sullivan series has played Manhattan. During these six, the complaint has been general. Now the piece is back in town and the rejoicing is general, particularly because the revival is in most respects admirable...
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...
...found copra?the beginning of an industry that is now worth $22,000,000 annually. It stood for Captain Dollar ?the idol of China's merchants, who, in half a century, never caused him a single "bad debt." It stood for the commissionless Ambassador Dollar who pacified the Mikado in person. Many freighters now fly that sign?and seven? passenger boats...
...intolerable burden upon the Chancellor. Moreover, it was pointed out by The New York Times, that, if the Government were forced to resign before a President were elected, Chancellor Luther would be in the same sort of situation as was the Pooh-Bah in Gilbert & Sullivan's famed Mikado, viz: Luther as Chancellor would be obliged to tender his resignation to himself as President and having accepted his own resignation would have to find a successor for himself as Chancellor...
...become effective might be set forward. In this way the State Department would be given lime in which to break with due formality the Gentlemen's Agreement, by which Japan has voluntarily restricted her emigration to this country, and to say a few kind words to the Mikado...