GILBERT AND QUEEN VICTORIA
eir,-ihere can be no "super-abun-dance" of Gilbert and Sullivan in my opinion, and your contributor may well suppose that both of them indulged in parody of the best order; but Gilbert went over the line when he made his pirate king say: There’s many a king on a first-class throne, If he wants to call his crown his own, Must manage somehow to get through More dirty work than ever I do. That must have been the reason why Queen Victoria neglected Gilbert when she knighted Sullivan, but her more tolerant son lost no time when he was in a position to remedy that hardly royal
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 5
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114GILBERT AND QUEEN VICTORIA New Zealand Listener, Volume 18, Issue 448, 23 January 1948, Page 5
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