THE "MIKADO."
LYRICAL CRITICISMS ON THE
SITUATION.
Mrs D'Oyly Carte has decided (says the London Express of May 10) that the company shall not play "The Mikado" at Leeds on Friday night, and the opera therefore has been withdrawn from the. bills.
The best commentary on the situation is contained in the following pronouncnient .ascribed to the Lord Chamberlain by Mr Mustyn T. l'igott in Hie World:
Tlie canons of crude common-sense, Tra-la. Have nothing to do with the case, 1 jump in a manner intense, Tra-la, On what in the way of offence, Tra-la.
Inhibits no signs of a trace. And therefore I sav in my own self-do
fence. •Oh. bother the canons of crude com
mon-sense!" Tni la la la la. etc.!
Mr W. S. Gilbert's view of the mat-ter-also interpreted by Mr T. IV-is:-Herc's n pretty mess! XoiiKeiiM' more or less Very shortly you will seme
Asking whether Prince Fushimi Means to curse or bless— Here's a pretty mess!
UNIVERSITY SATIRE.
Lord Anthrop's sense of humor has appealed to the irresponsible undergraduate, who refers to the Lord Chamberlain as "Bob" in the following verses in the "Urania":— His stern decree, you'll understand, Has caused much mirth in every land, For up till then We Englishmen Hail passed for rather heavy. Hut now. however we may try, Xo one will take us seriously; The Embassies arc fit to die
When Bob gives forth a Levee! And you'll agree without a fuss That they are right laughing thus. And you can laugh, And they can laugh, And everyone laugh—but us!
Lord dc Saumarez, who was formerly Secretary to the Embassy in Toklo, explains in the Times that the name of the opera must be very offensive to every Japanese, as the Mikado is invested with a distinctly religions character, being credited, indeed, with divine origin. Lord de Saumarez holds to this opinion, "whatever disclaimer and individual Japanese, actuated by the national somewhat exaggerated politeness, may verbally make when assailed by an iuter-
esting interviewer.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 July 1907, Page 4
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335THE "MIKADO." Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 11 July 1907, Page 4
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