Word: nankipoo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Ever since his production last season of lolanthe, there has been a disposition among other producers to leave Gilbert & Sullivan to Winthrop Ames. How wise this policy is was demonstrated last week in the most tuneful of the Savoyard operettas, The Mikado. This opera is the one in which NankiPoo (William Williams), son of the Mikado of Japan (John Barclay), disguises himself as a wandering minstrel to woo Yum-Yum (Lois Bennett), ward and fiancee of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (Fred Wright). By crossing the palm of the stately grafter, Pooh-Bah (William Gordon), whose ancestry...
...Marguerite Namara, lately with the Opera Comique in Paris, adds beauty and a considerable lyric ability. Lupino Lane is an agile Ko-Ko. William Danforth, standard Mikado of this century in the U. S., is excellent as usual. The acting of Tom Burke in the part of NankiPoo was seriously displeasing, but his excellent concert voice paid back the debt...
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