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...Herald printed the colyum. From the next day's offering the Herald lopped off seven paragraphs dealing with California and paradise. On the following day Colyumist Brisbane told how economically one can live in California. Miami readers were not to suffer that. The Herald tossed the whole col-yum aside, dug up and printed instead some two-weeks-old Brisbanalities about naval armaments, the death of Santos-Dumont, etc., etc. Fortnight ago Westbrook Pegler, eloquent sports colyumist of the Chicago Tribune, was en route to the Olympic Games, writing his syndicated daily piece on the train as does Colyumist...
...note of novelty is supplied by Hizi Koyke, a Japanese, as the opera's Yum-Yum. She is charming, has a good voice, but strangely enough the fact that she is really Japanese adds little to the show, detracts from the pleasant unreality of the doings in the town of Titipu. Librettist Gilbert knew nothing and cared less about things Japanese. The opera suggested itself to him as he gazed at a curved sword on his English study wall...
...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 enmeshed...
...broad cheeks, all so deftly that an Indo-European girl, or at most a Eurasian, left the dressing-room where a little Nipponese had gone in. Not until she reached Detroit last week was real attention paid this young woman by newsgatherers. Then the fact was broadcast that the 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...
Edward Herbert ("Don Eduardo") Thompson, excavator of the sacred well of Yum Chac, the Rain God, and many another spot in Chichen Itza, the Mayan Capital (TIME, May 17, BOOKS), has pushed his investigations inland to Coba, an older, provincial Mayan city [visited last winter by Dr. Gann (TIME, April 26)]. The expedition found unknown ruins called by local bush-dwellers "Macanxoc" meaning "you can't read it," ruins of what was doubtless Coba's religious centre...