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...must be confessed that the performance of "Pinafore" was disappointing from a group that did such a magnificent job on "The Mikado" earlier in the week. For the first voice to really strike the ear in "The Mikado" was the clear baritone of Peacock as Pish-Tush (there isn't a bass in the entire company) and the next thing to hit was the ability of Ames. Then Peacock's voice cracked in "Trial by Jury" and broke in "Pinafore," while Ames couldn't talk by the end of the operetta. They have somewhat recovered, however...
Robert Pitkin nearly stole the show as the Mikado, and did himself justice as the usher in "Trial by Jury" and as Dick Dead-Eye, although the latter part required a bass which he was not able to supply. James Gerard, the romantic lead of the company and its only good tenor, does not quite look the part of the handsome Ralph Rackstraw or a Nanki-Poo. His substitute, Allen Stewart, who played the defendant in "Trial by Jury," is better looking but his voice does not have the required lyrical quality...
Last week the State Department's grey, granite-jawed Joseph C. Grew, longtime U.S. Ambassador to Tokyo, spoke up "unofficially" in favor of letting the Japanese people keep their symbolic Mikado. Said he: "The Emperor did not want war." Once the military clique surrounding the throne is defeated, the fanatical cult of Shinto "can be an asset, not a liability...
Then fortnight ago in San Francisco, California's earnest young Representative Will Rogers Jr., junketing on a lecture tour, gave currency to a proposal often discussed among experts on the Far East. Said Will Rogers: perhaps the Mikado would be an ideal U.S. puppet in Japan. The idea had been proposed by a British diplomat, he said. Congressman Rogers carefully did not endorse or condemn the plan; he merely offered it for his listeners' "consideration...
...have reason to believe that the Mikado . . . has never felt unfriendly to the Western world . . . that the Pearl Harbor treachery was in conflict with the Emperor's concept of foreign policy. Therefore, it is argued, in Hirohito we might have a friend...