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...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 is so proud that he was "born sneering," they avoid one tangle of legal red tape only to discover themselves enmeshed in another. Not till the exalted Mikado himself descends upon the scene does the complication resolve itself into matrimony...
...beautiful silliness that makes such alarming good sense when you come to think it over, and Arthur Sullivan's beguiling music can degenerate into oppressive bores. Mr. Ames sees to it that the stage keeps moving. His Mikado skips over huddles of prostrate subjects. His sonorous aristocrat, Pooh-Bah, is tantalized by lively, romping girls. The color combinations change and move, too, so vividly that the performance could fascinate a deaf-mute. Be sides there is a company of actors with unusually fine voices who have understanding hearts for the blithe spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan. Manhattan holds no sightlier...
...such strength that further investigation is imperatively needed. I would say the same of many of the alleged supernormal physical phenomena of mediumship. I am not convinced of the supernormality ... but I do feel that evidence for them is such that the scientific world is not justified in pooh-poohing. . . . This is no field for the casual amateur...
WINNIE-THE-POOH - A. A. Milne - Dutton ($2). Christopher Robin thought it was a boy, but it wasn...
Winnie-The-Pooh...