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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 6 Mar 1931, p. 35

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and Il instead of on March 20 and 21 as previously announced. W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan actually composed part of this piece1 in America, and it was first played in NewYork -in 1879. Gilbert's caacesare spirited. and have warm, quick emotions. They, nevertheless have a calm spot inside, as though they were English- men playing in a J'ussian novel. The "Pirates" is'a satire on British respectability, and. the exaggerated moral sense of the. Victorian era. The Queen of England§ who knighted Sul- livan, refused to knight Gilbert be- cause of bis satirical ulnes about English nobility and .g overnment. Eventually Gilbert also was knighted. 1The play deals, with the fortunes of Frederic, who is, apprenticed to a band of pirates. He leaves them, when he is out of his indentures, feel-> ling morally.bound to devote himîself to their. extermination. 0f course he straightway fails in love witb a dauighter of an English miajor-gen- eral. The major-general is one of the most famous of comic opera figures, being literally a ýwalking encyclo- pedia. "lu short in matters vegetabie, animal an minri Me is the very model of a modern major-general!" lrhen Frederic finds that he was apprentiéed as a pirate until his twenty-first birthday. But alas, he was born in leap-year on the 1wenty- ninth of Febti*aryand is still 'a mem- ber of the band! Mis duty' is. clear to himself, he 'leaves his love and accompanies the pirates in an -attack on the major- general's mansion. There ensues an. absurd battie with the police in. wýhich.îthe sea-rogues yield in Queen Victoria's nzame. Fortunately the pirates turu out Io be noblemfen. and each Will- thenceforth live in respect- able domesticity with one of the ma-jor-general's daughters as a wife.. Junior Music Club Holds the group. ni John is a treshman varsity debate teamns eonard Krupnick con- forum discussion on iRussia. After this )r Griffith addresse'j March and April ore the months when our -Iowo.I rates are in off oct- W iII ho glod of an opportunity to show yous what we have fo offor, and t. quota, rates for the. whole, or any part of thet p.rlod. Tlophone L5NÏb4eah 6000-Manager'. Office."' 041318 <ZEAI!DVNC&D ýREFRIgERATIO&. Just a gent/e wi ep and. Frigi1"daire gleams, with spt/ess "newness" Porcelain-ojn-steel! 'As freshly, white as the, frozen snow on a pri ns need ever, decorate the' WOIL The annuai repot Shows a net worth of V82,135.39, no bank bor-' rowings, current assets being eighteen âimes current liabilities. Arthur C. Hamnmond..500l Gregory avenue,« Wilmette, bas been in New York this- week'on businps. »OWNTOWN DISPLAY ROON: 181 N. Nichlgan Ave. .1-Tel Esudoiplu4961 Xvanston- . 101 Shermian Ave. Greenteaf 4480 W., Q. Ucyrer -1181 <Central Ave. GENEAL OFFICES: 219 E. North Water St. T Iel. WhitoIaaU 8141 Mublard Wood@ $ 84 Lindeua Ave.. wimntka 1818 Publié Service Compay oe, NortIsera Illinois *t 9an toir ofis STOVER CO.

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