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Girl Trouble concerns a shy youth who loves one girl, is pursued by another, loved by a third, and tormented by his relatives. With a disturbing lack of comic inspiration, the play proceeds until the right girl wins...
Quite by chance librettist and musician were brought together to do a curtain-raiser. An astute and sporting manager, D'Oyly Carte, saw the possibilities, launched the inimitable comic operas which have been wide favorites these 50 years?H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzancc, Patience, lolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore. But it was also D'Oyly Carte who charged the famous £140 carpet to The Gondoliers, thereby traditionally starting the passionate if intermittent quarrel between the gifted collaborators. Gilbert objected to the extravagance, and flew into a rage because Sullivan refused to join in the objection...
FRANK CRUMIT, soulful-songster of comic balads has produced "Bride's Lament" and "Jack is Every Inch a Sailor". The funniest thing about them is that when written, they weren't supposed to be funny...
...comic incident of the week was the inexplicable leaking out of an old, secret Scotland Yard "Report on the Activities of James Ramsay MacDonald from 1916 to 1921." In the expert opinion of detectives who prepared the report, "Mr. MacDonald is a Constitutional Socialist and by no means a Bolshevist...
...prolific subject for cartooning was the confused interparty "bolting" that began so soon as both Nominees were known. Nelson Harding drew a comic picture called "Any Man's Land," with voters running across, crawling across, tripping, tumbling, spinning in circles, bumping stomachs, going...