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...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 is so proud that he was "born sneering," they avoid one tangle of legal red tape only to discover themselves...
...film he looks even more beastlike. Yet the love sequence for that very reason seems more unlikely. As a man, he loves the heroine. As a chimpanzee, a disguise assumed to help a friend, he appears in circus sideshows. Under these circumstances it is no easy matter to woo a sensitive girl not wise in anthropology. Yet it is done successfully with melodramatic incident...
...penetrate fertile Kentucky, pause in boisterous St. Louis, journey through the Southwest with grave discomfort from Indians and thirst, at last reaching Silver in San Diego, Calif. There Shiloh, who has successfully resisted five wilderness nymphs, all ravishingly endowed and more than amiable, sends David in his stead to woo the lovely object of their odyssey, himself reclining on a Pacific headland to ponder his necessity for a persistently elusive ideal...
...Buchman handbook, Soul Surgery, keynotes the slogan, "Woo, Win, Warn." There, personal workers read...
...stricken field are all one to us. Show me your teeth?excellent! Look at these fists?sufficient, I venture to think. . . . Come!" Thus Jeremy Veryan to his dog as he sets out across Mr. Farnol's newest pages to escape a crabbed guardian, find his father's murderer and woo a real storybook heroine in that most romantic of epochs, the day of The Broad Highway. Nothing further is necessary to introduce this book to the thousands and thousands that will read...