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Died. Frank Moulan, 63, veteran Gilbert & Sullivan baritone ("Ko-Ko," "The Duke of Plaza-Toro," "Sir Joseph Porter") ; in Manhattan...
Jimmie convinces the Hathaways that Pearl, whom he introduces as Virginia Lee, a cultured, stage-struck socialite, will back their company if she is given a bit part. Vehicle for the Broadway opening is The Mikado, with Danforth singing the lead, Frank Moulan the Lord High Executioner, and Irene Hervey, most fetching in a kimono, chorusing Three Little Maids from School with Vivian Hart and Carita Crawford. The finale is interrupted when conscience, stirred by the sound of approaching police sirens, impels Jimmie to reveal that the show has no backing and the house has been "papered" (packed free...
...cast which Producer Milton Aborn presents is about the same that appeared in his revivals two years ago. Frank Moulan, a little 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...
Next week Producer Aborn will present The Yeomen of the Guard, a more serious Gilbert & Sullivan operetta not often revived. If he does as well as he used to do, Frank Moulan will get in some heavy dramatic licks as the gleeman with the croak of a frog-o. Of the present production it may be said, with the chorus...
...Boston; it is to display a most quibbling quiddity to remark that the twenty love-sick maidens of the Civic Light Opera Company are but sixteen, or that the choruses might conceivably be better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient. Mr. Joseph Macaulay makes, ah, a very Narcissus in the velveteens of Archibald the All-Right. If one might criticize Miss Laura Ferguson...