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...00The War This Week--Henry Oyen. 8:15 Gilbert and Sullivan's "Mikado." 9:00 Excerpts from Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." Produced by the 41 Workshop. 9:15 Play It Again.--Popular Music. 9:45 Masters of Music--Sibelius' En Saga, 5th Symphony in E Flat Major, Opus 82 and three songs by Marian Anderson. 10:45 Crimson News, Sports, Interview...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON NETWORK | 5/3/1940 | See Source »

...Chicago last season the Federal Theatre Project launched the big moneymaker of its brief career with a rousing, all-Negro Swing Mikado. In Chicago last week an all-Negro cast kicked over another Gilbert & Sullivan lantern, hoping to start another blaze of swing with a Tropical Pinafore. But the show went over on its rich, husky Negro singing rather than as a shagging Harlemquinade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gilbert & Sullivan Warmed Up | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

Otherwise Tropical Pinafore had little of the genuine high spirits that lifted The Swing Mikado high off its feet. But it had singing that not only The Swing Mikado, but even the D'Oyly Carters, might envy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Gilbert & Sullivan Warmed Up | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

...rank forbade his boarding ships, would the Lord of the Forbidden Interior designate an officer of rank low enough to talk with the Vice Governor? He would -a junior lieutenant, who haughtily informed the Vice Governor that the Lord of the Forbidden Interior had a letter from the Mikado of the U. S. to the Mikado of Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Heartbreak | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...keeps him as busy as brokers ever did. In the past five years he has done sets for 35 Broadway productions. Near tops in Broadway stage painting last season was Nat Karson's rapid-fire blend of Negro jazz and Japanese formalism in the sets of the Hot Mikado. His latest, Let's Go, opened last week at the International Casino, on the same night his Rialto murals were unveiled. But these are only side jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stage Artist | 1/1/1940 | See Source »

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