Word: mikado
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cause for this international renaissance is not far to seek. Any number of reasons are available: the stupidity of revues, the reaction against eternal jazz, or the desire for comedy that is really comic. One does not have to be an intellectual to appreciate "The Mikado" or "The Gondoliers"; and "Patience" in spite of its theme being quite dead, is as alive today as in the time of Oscar Wilde. it is a proof of the universality of enjoyment for clever dialogue and good music to see a modern audience reveling in Gilbert and Sullivan. Lasting geniuses were scarce...
...Only foreigners refer to the Emperor by the poetic title "Mikado...
Simultaneously Prince Chichibu, second son of the Mikado of Japan, matriculated at Oxford. His Royal Highness announced that he will remain for but one year, will confine his studies to literature, history, political science and economics...
...European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers. Then the fact was broadcast that the Yum-Yum of the Messrs. Shubert's Mikado road company, was none other than Hisa Koike ("Eternal-Life Small-Lake"), 19, descendant of proud Samurai,f whose ambition vaults not only as high as grand opera but also beyond the roles to which Japanese prima donnas have always been limited in the Occident-Madame Butterfly, Madame Chrysantheme, Lena...
...present Japanese workmen cannot strike if employed by an enterprise in which the Mikado or his family has an interest, for such a strike would be interpreted not only as an affront to the Imperial House but as a defamation of the gods from whom the Mikado is descended. Hence, in disputes between capital and labor, the Emperor has gradually been drawn into the position-undesirable for a modern sovereign-of standing always with the full purse against the empty. Now, by liquidating its holdings, the Imperial House will resume the high impartiality expected of sovereigns...