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Their repertory includes most of the old favorites: "The Gondoliers," "Iolanthe," the "Trial by Jury," The Pirates of Penzance," "The Yeomen of the Guard," "The Mikado," "Princess Ida," "Cox and Box," "H. M. S. Pinafore," and "Patience." Portions of many of these operettas have been sung by glee club members since time immemorial, and it is to be expected that some usually enterprising devotee of Gilbert and Sullivan will be so swept away as to join in the choruses from the audience...
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...
...hulking, ham-fisted persons who now & then take George V's crown & sceptre from the Tower of London and always put them back are unofficially "Beefeaters," officially the Yeomen of the Guard...
...roofless house with 8,000 spectators-1,600 of whom get free seats. This season's repertoire includes: The Desert Song, Madame Pompadour, The New Moon, Blossom Time, Show Boat. For its first few years the project staged only light operas, such as Robin Hood, The Mikado, The Yeomen of the Guard...
...best Presidents the U. S. has ever had." Says Author Eckenrode: a Democrat in the White House so soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started...