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Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado with some startling un-type casting: Groucho Marx as Ko-Ko, Helen Traubel as Katisha, Stirling Holloway as Poo-Bah and Dennis King as the Mikado. Color...
...Poo-Bah, Lord High Everything Else, Garlick is truly the man born with a sneer, who cannot even arise from his knees without throwing the audience into convulsions. Stone's performance has to be seen to be believed. His facial expressions are each one masterpieces, and his delivery of the old chestnut, "My Object All Sublime" was an experience to remember. His short appearance is almost too good to be true...
Musically, most of the lustre came from the romantic lead, Vivian Thomas as Yum-Yum, and Benjamin Cox's Nanki-Poo. Miss Thomas bounces onto the stage with her disarming freshness and charm and an outstandingly lovely voice. Cox has just the right voice for this part, and knows how to use it, although last night he sounded a little constrained. The two of them made a very attractive pair, if slightly too all-American for their British pronunciation...
...Nanki-Poo Presley. A sometime contralto in G. & S. amateur productions, Petitioner Alderley was badly shaken four years ago to learn that the British copyright on W. S. Gilbert's lyrics would expire in 1961 (the copyright on Sullivan's music lapsed in 1950). She promptly withdrew to her little Oxford bedsitting room, and for ten hours each day sat scrawling appeals to Gilbert & Sullivan fans the world over, requesting their signatures for the petition she was preparing for Parliament. Seared into her mind were reported visions of Mike Todd's Hot Mikado with Katisha...
...Miss Alderley envisioned them, were endless: Frank Sinatra as the defendant in Trial by Jury, charged with stealing a pizza pie; The Gondoliers remade into The Road to Venice, with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope. It was even suggested to Dorothy Alderley that Elvis Presley might play Nanki-Poo. Snapped she: "I'd Nanki-Poo him if I could get my hands...