Word: mikados
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as the news that Joseph E. Widener-'Mister' Widener, as we intimates call him around the horse parks-has been entertaining the Earl and Countess of Athlone at Palm Beach. Mister Widener is as plain as an old diamond tiara and as Democratic as the Mikado himself...
...music teacher. At five she performed as Cupid in a church pageant, made her audience laugh by falling off a pedestal. At 14, under her stage name (borrowed from an aunt) she joined an itinerant stock opera troupe, finally got a chance to understudy Katisha in The Mikado for $8 a week. Eight years later, playing in the same theatre, she was getting $800 a week...
Manhattan's St. James Theatre one night last week. The Mikado was being revived and delighted Savoyards, a distinct and folksy type of audience which seems to remain in hiding between Gilbert & Sullivan revivals, were on hand in large and enthusiastic numbers.* Librettos were on sale in the lobby (and up the street for 10? less), but these were for neophytes and not for the initiated, who have stacks of Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan's records at home, know Sir William Schwenk Gilbert's polysyllabic lyrics by heart...
...monkey of a man who delighted St. Louis Municipal Operagoers many a summer season in the past, takes the part of Ko-Ko, the Lord High Executioner who finds himself in danger of having to execute himself. Yum-Yum, one of his wards, is Hizi Koyke. Her suitor, the Mikado's wandering minstrel son, is played by Roy Cropper, a young man with a pleasingly liquid tenor...
...most delights local Gilbert & Sullivan audiences is veteran William Danforth. As the Mikado, garbed in a terrifying Shinto costume, he executes elephantine pirouettes, disgustedly squelches his interrupting female relatives with explosive "Phaughs...