GILBERT AND SULLIVAN
NOT KNOWN BY SYDNEY GIRL. Here's an echo from the recent Gilbert and Sullivan season which reveals the astonishing fact that there is one person, at least, in gydney, who apparently has never heard of the famous operas and thinks that H.M.S. Pinafore is part and parcel of the Royal Navy, says a writer in the “Sydney Sun.” Maxwell Oldaker, who played one of the leading Gilbert and Sullivan roles, tells the story of how he took a photograph of himself in “Pina-fore” costume along to a shop to buy a suitable frame. The girl attending to him brought out a number of natty little model frames embellished with coats of arms and names of H.M.A.S. warships. Looking at. his photograph she apologetically explained that there didn’t seem to be one with his ship's name on it but she was sure she could order one for him.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 9
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150GILBERT AND SULLIVAN Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 August 1940, Page 9
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