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...time, though, Genghis just idles along in Peking, where the Chinese let him in on the discovery of gunpowder. Other odd bits of wisdom are supplied by Emperor Robert Morley, who apparently can't tell one Oriental from another, since his dynasty resembles a road-show Mikado. The high pooh-bah in charge of comedy relief is Kam Ling (James Mason), sporting almond eyes, malocclusion and a washee-quickee accent. As befits a ham, Kam Ling is sliced up just before a lively duel to the death between Jamuga and Genghis. Hordes of loyal Mongol mourners think the great...
...Your statement [Nov. 8] that Negroes "have been shut out of My Fair Lady" is stupidly misleading. Pointing out that there are no Negroes in My Fair Lady is tantamount to complaining that there are no Hungarians in The Mikado...
Harold Macmillan, who is more frequently likened to an Edwardian squire, last week was compared instead to Stalin, Robespierre and the Mikado's Lord High Executioner. Britain's Prime Minister earned such comments by pushing ahead with a pitiless purge in which he axed 16 ministers in four days. Though shocked by the mass firings of Macmillan's trusted lieutenants, Britons gleefully echoed Liberal M.P. Jeremy Thorpe's gibe: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his friends for his life...
...their tenth and eleventh productions, the Gilbert & Sullivan Players maintained their envious record of never falling short of a good show. In the fall, Julius L. Novick '60 directed a superlative Mikado, much abetted by the performances of David L. Stone '61 and D. Steven Garlick '60. The Gondoliers in the spring could not match it, but the singing of Lila H. Woodruff '60 and Stephen Tamkin added greatly to the over-all enjoyment...
Accompanied by a piano and a Hammond organ, a 23-member company calling itself American Savoyards does a different Gilbert & Sullivan operetta each week, has won so large a following that it has already staged second repeat performances of H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado and The Pirates of Penzance. An idea of rare originality is realized in The Fantasticks, a musical in masque form based on Rostand's Les Romanesques. Since last spring, Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane (1917) has been exploiting a rich vein of nostalgia: snowy-browed patrons go back and back again, are beginning...