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...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 in another. Not till the exalted Mikado himself descends upon the scene does the complication resolve itself into matrimony...
...beautiful silliness that makes such alarming good sense when you come to think it over, and Arthur Sullivan's beguiling music can degenerate into oppressive bores. Mr. Ames sees to it that the stage keeps moving. His Mikado skips over huddles of prostrate subjects. His sonorous aristocrat, Pooh-Bah, is tantalized by lively, romping girls. The color combinations change and move, too, so vividly that the performance could fascinate a deaf-mute. Be sides there is a company of actors with unusually fine voices who have understanding hearts for the blithe spirit of Gilbert & Sullivan. Manhattan holds no sightlier...
...detest them especially when they are long. They are unprogressive, impracticable, unhealthy. They are masks for solemn humbugs, weak chins, degenerate and receding jaws. They are nests for bacteria. . . . Bah! I hate beards...
...position to live a life of drinking, gaming and debauch. Suddenly he abandoned these practices, and when his friends assembled to remonstrate, he cried: "I have given up this kind of life to give my real services to my country. You call yourselves my friends. Friends! Bah! Thank the gods, I shall not have to call you friends any more. You, who are supposed to be working for the country and serving the people, are not MY friends. Get out! Don't come here again...
...Ebenezer Scrooge, chief character in Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol, is first introduced as a squeezing, grasping, covetous old hunks, sharp and hard as a flint, whose favorite remark on all subjects, but especially Christmas, is "Bah! Humbug...