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...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...
...Yum-Yum of the Messrs. Shubert's Mikado road company, was none other than Hisa Koike ("Eternal-Life Small-Lake"), 19, descendant of proud Samurai,f whose ambition vaults not only as high as grand opera but also beyond the roles to which Japanese prima donnas have always been limited in the Occident-Madame Butterfly, Madame Chrysantheme, Lena in La Princesse Jaune. It was to be a Marguerite, a Lady Marian, a Xenia, that Hisa Koike, after studying music at Columbia University, undertook to learn western make-up methods and practiced them even while playing Yum...
Pullee-Bullee, stroke, Yum-Yum...