Another British Screen Success
the British film producers are X returning to the excellent standard set some years ago when such films as “Rookery Nook,” “Sunshine Susie” and “Tell Me Tonight,” were produced, is evidenced by the fact that, following right after Bernard Shaw’s comedy, “Pygmalion,” and Hitchcock’s thriller, “The Lady Vanishes,” the release at the Leicester Square Theatre, London, of “The Mikado,” the first of the Gilbert and Sulivan comic operas to be filmed, has taken place with great success. The proceeds of the first performance was given to charity. Amongst the overflowing audience were the Duke and Duchess of Kent. The producer of “The Mikado” is Geoffrey Toye, famous Covent Garden musical director, and composer of the d’Oyly Carte and Gilbert and Sullivan Opera Companies. He personally has directed the famous London Symphony Orchestra, which takes care of Sullivan’s music in the picture.
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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145Another British Screen Success Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 147, 17 March 1939, Page 14
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