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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 10 Aug 1939, p. 40

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Iorsi Fanious Stage Show :%4:.met, Can you thnkof a musical coin- vent buri. rio hurns edy that has not been filmed? There ite At ad ,tgtbe is one however, and> the most imi»or-, atant and popular one ever wrltten. 7 Perhaps it would be morecorrecft t- say thàt there was one for thisrmostý elusive of song soshas at, last been. captured by' the ýcamnera i ful lET technicolor after 53 years of charm- ing millions.. the world, over,, byl ILY th otsands of pLerformancë'son pro- MDAT fessir'nal. amateur, college and.I school stages. It is l'The Mikado," Gilbert andI Sullivan's. masterwork which has L2just been fflmed bythe D'Oyly Carte Ouer CoDany sucfIsors'of the troupe which origirially presented 00the comeciy. Kenn'v Baker, tenor soloist of the Jack Benny radio pro- sr~i ings. the leading, romnantic Wa role. The London Symphony orches- ock tra supplied the musical accompan~- iment. Victor Schertzinger, .who filmecl Grace Moore's "One Night 650 of Love" directed the picture, which .Universal is releasing, and which i AMOUS 'OR OOD WIDI VARIETY 0Fl F00D M~AIN ST. ROOF GARDEN I.. N.w Open NEWLY DECORATED JIM VAN ORDEN AND 1115 ORCHESTRA Choce LIquors ,t Popolor Prices Y.u&egau Rd. 4Mm 'North al Gienhue CONTINUOU8 ECNTHItT^MNN DINNER SERVED DPAI FR051 à 0'CLWCK-SUW FR051 12 0'CLOCI< SGuinea.Hen S wih WiId Rice.. Fried Chicken, Roast Duck S or Turkey.......j ffrf#g Irott- AUde Concert from *3o'ciu Suai Reservationa Clenview *being hailed as a successor to -Snow WMhite." At Peak of Form "The Mikado" was writteri in 18I85 *when Gilbert anid Sullivan were at the peak of their- form as mature masters of their trades. Gilbert w.Kas 49. Sullivan was 43. It was the ninth of their 12 musical plays. When it was produced .at the Savoy Theater, London, by Richard D'Oyly Carte on, March 14, 1885, it became an imme- dÏate hit and ran for 672 perform- Illusion Sends Set Visitor Into Faint Director Edward H. Griff ith was handllng a scene for "Are Husbands, Necessary?" that included Fred MacMurray, Madeleine Carroll and Akim Tamiroif. It takes place in Miss Carroll's off ice supposedly on' the l6th floor of a department store -and the backings give the illusion of height. In the micdle of the scene, Ta- miroif, seated on the window ledge, lost hiÉ balance, and, with a startled amai said uùnique, Ann Sothe'rn as the tmpertinent and saucy. "Mai sie," leads Robert Young a lively chase in the film of the' same name openring tomorrow at the Varsity theater. "Five Came )&ick," action-thriller with Chester Morris, runs a week on the same bill. i i

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