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When Thompson died at 48 (in 1907, of tuberculosis), his sole belongings were "a few old pipes and old pens lying in a tin lid" and a nondescript collection of clippings from the Daily Mail (e.g., "Mikado Airs on Japanese Warship-Amusing Scenes"; "The Milk Peril, What Hinders Reform"). But by then, thanks in good part to Editor Meynell (who lived on until 1948), he stood second only to William Butler Yeats as the foremost lyricist...
...Ford Foundation, whose object is not money but an attempt to exploit new TV horizons. The first show of the series set the pace for the future: two original plays (The Badmen, by William Saroyan, and The Trial of Anne Boleyn, by Maxwell Anderson); excerpts from The Mikado, with Britain's famed Martyn Green; two short films (Witch Doctor, an authentic Haitian dance with Jean Leon Destine, and clips from an X-ray movie...
Green is backed by a fine company, Robert Eccles plays the proud Pooh-Bah with corpulent pomposity, elegantly waving a fan the size of a Venetian blind. A suitably menacing Mikado, Joseph Macaulay, handles Gilbert's lyrics deftly as he gloats of his plan "to make the punishment fit the crime...
Though the sets are unexciting The Mikado is colorful and well-staged, and if Mr. Chartock's Iolanthe and Pirates of Penzance maintain the standard of this production, his company will be an important addition to American repertory theatre...
Peterson was recently elected First Marshal of his class, played on the tennis team, and was on the Student Council. Recker produced "The Mikado," played House football and was on the Council and WHRB...