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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1930.
A CHILDISH ATTITUDE
RE WILLIAM SCHWENK GILBER
Who Wrote the amorph
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ing the new Savoy theatre while their next opera. "Patience,” was being presented.
NO-DAY is the cen- inferority complex, because all plays, and so on which
tenary of the birth of he did was fight and fail com- everyone sit up with a start., Sir William S. Gilbert, pletely to adjust himself to the
He was still tarred with the It is a good thing his community doings of the school. brush of his father's gift of
There was father, William, a retired
one thing that cynical, barbed wit, and it came could distract him from himself; to him that he was rolling up naval surgeon who had a that fearful temper and literary acting in them.
was writing plays and enemies in the theatre world; Presumably and since he wanted eventually
The public which had held aloof from the two before their American triumph now flocked after them, and "Iolanthe" came close on the heels of "Patience."
Hongkong Telegraph. tastes, had also an interest his masters were glad enough to be connected with the stage, But the subsequent "Princess in fairy tales, eccentricity to see him occupied with this he could see that he must stop Ida" was so far from being what and the writing of long activity, extracurricular as it this. So he stopped writing or they hoped that the composer threw up his hands, walled that novels, biographies, and the was, but he managed always to drawing anything connected like.
fight with the casts selected with the stage. He fell in with his day as a composer was run Otherwise, the world might he decided to chuck it all and leading figure in modern stage into a fury but as usual they for the productions and at last one Tom Robertson who was the out, and he would never write anything moré. Gilbert flew never have had the joy of that run away. He could be an actor direction; they established a incomparable combination, Gil- somewhere else. He was wheed club which was to become very ferences of opinions and the grim managed to compose their dif bert and Sullivan, and there led into keeping on with school important to the English stage; fiasco of "Princess Ida" might not now be, literally, for a while.
Gilbert learned liberally and thousands upon thousands of
swallowed up in the really people in the United States
conscientiously from Robertson
marvellous clamour over the plays were being produced with that care
was
It takes all kinds of people to make up humanity in general, but it is extremely difficult to understand the mentality of the two Welsh Labour M.P.'s who banded together in an American school at Great Ealing. He and by the late sixtles his own "Mikado," which came along, in
King's College followed the
Gilbert and Sullivan Association didn't like to study, but he which has no other rule of thought he'd like to join up with eligibility than "an avowed love the Artillery in the Crimean for the Gilbert and Sullivan War, and set about preparing operas" and no other occupation himself to do so. Unfortunately than the interchange of in- for that ambition, the war dividual knowledge of Gilbert ended before he could take the and Sullivan, and the enjoy examinations.
have declined invitations to ac- company His Majesty the King on a tour of the depressed areas in South Wales. Care is, ad mittedly, taken to make it plain that the objection is in no sense directed against His Majesty, without question the most popularment of presentations of the
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1885.
It was in April, 1935, that the become known as the especial excellence of the Savoy. They Gilbert and Sullivan Association weren't very good plays, though was established on the wave of and are lost now in the merciful feeling stirred up by the popular dust of the forgiving years. response to the appearance of the D'Oyly Carte players in the It was in 1870 that he met United States for eight months, Sir Arthur Sullivan. Sullivan beginning in September, 1934.
man in Britain to-day. Indeed, operas, on as frequent occasions BUT he joined up with the was as important as a composer The Association is headed by
as possible.
Militia, anyhow. He looked as Gilbert was a writer. But Frederick J. Halton, whose splendidly in a uniform. But by late 1871 they had done an father, P. W. Halton, was con- Certainly there was very little when his detachment-went-to-operetta-together. It wasn't a ductor of the original D'Oyly in the early life of Gilbert to Scotland for manoeuvres and very good operetta but Richard Carte Company, mostly on tour. indicate the eminence he would he was assigned training duties, D'Oyly Carte thought that the Branches of the association have come to later. He had a mother his independence asserted itself two who had done it might be been organised in many key and four sisters, but it was again. He and his men simply capable of better things; and cities in the United States and Father Gilbert who made most did not appear in their appoint four years later he had per- Canada. of the noise in the household ed place one day, and when an- sunded them to get together on and the neighbours predicted other detachment was detailed "Trial by Jury." that, with a father like that, to find out why, it was found.
a tribute is paid to King Edward for his sympathy towards the unemployed, which has been so often demonstrated, in word and deed. Actually, these Labour M.P.'s are merely attempling to make political capital out of their refusal to be present in their constituencies when His Majesty makes his visit they have the temerity to put forward
young Gilbert, who had a tem that Gilbert decided the wea- similar
They were two totally dis- FOR all the tales of "Gilbert's inability to get along har- the per of his own, would never lead ther was too poor for any such friends easily and had a certain relations, it is a curious thing
men. Sullivan
made moniously in many of his human ridiculous argument that the dull life, though it would peacocking antics, and he and talent for friendliness. Gilbert that he was perhaps most wide- Government is shielding behind probably never be a prosperous his men were all dry and cozy, annoyed the life out of people, ly known for his love of children the King's sympathy for the
and was always in hot water. and of pets. He was always workless, at the same time alleg-
Gilbert, on the other hand, was arranging parties and picnics for 3 highly respectable man, ing persecution of the poor.
children and when school whereas Sullivan loved gambling
children gathered in New York on the horses.
not long ago for the decoration · So, while the two became
These are tactics which do mora
to
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That seemed to cause a rift WHEN he was 18, they sent between Gilbert and the Army.
young Gilbert to a school at Great Ealing. He could not get ment of Education, but they He got a job in the Depart- harm those indulging in along there. He was probably made him sit on a stool and them than to anybody else; suffering from what a preten- write things he considered non- perhaps the most famed artistic of a bronze plaque that marks they certainly have no value tious later age was to dub an sense, and when some one left collaborators of modern times, the site of the Gramercy Park whatever and cannot
him a little legacy he was off they were never really friends. Place, the little girls all wore the stool like a shot and away But they got a lot of work red flowers pinned to their middy sibly affect the issues with can with equal truth be said that to try to prepare himself for done, and some of it was very blouses, because Sir Gilbert which these M.P.s profess so the Government is just as anxi-the law.
always wore one in his button- hole; and also, they were careful much concern.
This childish dis-ous to relieve the lot of those who
He did qualify, but he had
to display stupendously clean the difficulty getting clients. He play of extreme party politics is have for so long been in indeed a strange method of slough of despond. It only re-got a few, but they were strange NOWADAYS, when we think
of successful tours by Gilbert ed (if it seemed unusual) by quires a moment's thought to people. One pounced on him and Sullivan production com- saying that Sir William "once showing appreciation for His refate the idea that the Govern- and kissed him in court. An- panies, it seems most im- wrote to a little girl who was go- Majesty's keen interest in the ment is guilty of callousness in other took off his shoe and possible to imagine that an ing to visit him on his yacht, and well-being of all classes of his its attitude towards the miners, flung it in his face, when the early performance of "Pinafore" he said that she was to shine her and people. Happily it is in no sense or to rebut the even more ridicul-outcome of the case displeased only took in a few pounds. boots, clean her naila
him.
But news of the opera travelled knuckles, have no talis hanging to the United States, and then to her dress, wear her best hat representative of the Labour Jous contention that it is bent on
La policy of persecuting the poor.o it was that Gilbert turned the collaborators travelled to and have her hair like a cocoanut Party in general or of any other No Government, whatever its his back, on the fantastic the States, too, and England" by which he meant it must
So section of the nation's political political complexion, wants to world of the law. And it was was allowed to understand that be smooth and neat.
distress is still pre-see any section of the people in just then that his attention she was not giving a valent in South Walea is common distress; quite the reverse. There was caught by the idea of writ appreciation to her own, and knowledge, but the problem in- may be, and there are, differences ing about, and drawing, some things grew better.
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His collection of pets included: lemurs, pigeons, dogs, cranes, cats and other members of the
volved is not one which can be of opinion as to the efficacy of of the sights around him- While they were in New animal and bird kingdoms. He which he did, and which at- solved by a mere waying of the the Government's plans for res-tracted a tremendous attention York, Gilbert and Sullivan lived had a pet fawn which was always fairy's wand. There are com- toring prosperity to the depressed to him when they developed into at a hotel called the Gramercy being snatched from other plicated economic factors in- areas.
Park Place. That was in 1870, people's property, with fines, Allegations of the kind the famous Bab Ballads,
and there they wrote "The therefor to be paid at the local volved, as the failure of so many made by these two M.P.'s are,
He worked cun- Pirates Penzance.". "It made bailiff's. His best was an better conditions has clearly facts, but the methods adopted the notice of newspaper pro- decided he could not possibly do Mary. She liked people who proved. No-one has shown more in putting them forward can only prictors and almost before he better than take over the whole sang, and climbed on chairs and concern over the plight of these be described as the height of bad knew it he was launched on a business of Gilbert and Sullivan tables to stare into their faces as people than His Majesty, and it taste.
steady flow of poetry, drawings, productions; which he did, build- they did.
LTD. honest efforts to give the miners however, not only contrary to mine merke of getting them to such a hit that D'Oyly Carte orange-eyed, blue Persian named