The San Francisco call., 1913-07-22
M|kADO' REVIVED
AGAIN At T|v0[|
Traditions Concerning Gill
bert and Sullivan Are
Sustained Admirably
By WALTER ANTHONY

How many times, do you suppose,
The Mikado' has been reviewed?
Imagine for answer. If you can. the
columns of newspaper comment that
have been printed with The Town of
Titipu" for theme and anxious actor
singers chiefly the readers. Set end
TO end (the columns, l mean. of course),
they would encircle theg lobe, no doubt,
or perhaps reach from shepherds ar
cadie to Plato's republic
Rolled. up. the newspaper in which
they would encircle the globe. no doubt,
formed. make a bulk equal to that of
the sun without it's spots, and piled
high with ono on the other. would re-
qure fl mile gale from Boreas cliff
two centuries TO disperse-
One shudders to think of the industry
that would be required to peruse them
all. Even Constant Reader" couldn't
do il, though he lived as he seems
likely to do forever.
Nevertheless, 1 am about to add to
the mess. and TO make it easy for you,
am inclined to tell you at first. so that
you may skip all the rest, that The
Mikado" was revived again last night
at the Tivoli aand that every revival
should be taken as though it were to
be the last 1T should be seen by you,
and by such Bilbertean relatives as you
may possess in the way of sisters and
/ cousins and aunts.
The traditions sconce rning Gilbert and
sullivan are sustained admirably t
the Tivoli this week.
The chorus really sings. and the
principals both sing and act.
Nothing of the spirit that made THE
Gatt f1A @nf f,rI Of oil
operas nearly 80 years ago, has been
violated If one excerpts the topical
verses that Teddy Webb introduces
into the immortal I've Got a Little
List song but even these are accept
able because there have been so many
varieties of the genus pest" that have
sprung into existence since Gilbert
dropped his pen and because the verses
themselves are clever and apt
Sarah Edwards hits the Gilbert and
Sullivan scheme of comic opera square
ly at all times. Her song of sadness
at the end of the first act has no COM
panion in this type of satirical sin
cerity except the singing of the con-
tralto song in Patience" wherein she
mourned her age and growing weight.
l mention Miss Edwards first be-
cause hers was the first opportunity /;
but Rena Vivienne. in her Yum Yum
music and particularly in her song to
the moon, was adora BILE last night and
sang to the pitch with keener acquain-
tance than | have ever heard her. In
her reading of her lines she was, as
always. intelligent. and in her kissing
duet with 10 ko she seemed utterly to
forget the danger that may lurk in a
germ.
Ko 10 had cold, very obvious
cold. but Yum Yum smiled and sang
and kissed with archness and an in
eradicabe smile.
l hope nothing will come of it, for
it would be d pity il Miss Vivienne
should contract a malady that made
John II. Phillips voice a husky and
half silent utterance last, night In
spite of his handicap. and by a judici-
GUS use Of his resources. Phillips fin
ished his difficult task without the ac-
compartment of his audiences discom-
fort, and husbanded his forces SO that
in his solos he was his effective self
b, Myrtle Dingwall entered at short nos
tice on the role of Pitt Sing and quite
won her audience by the grace and
dainty manner that characterized her
For He's Going to Marry Yum YUM =
which was properly encored
Miss Dingwalls voice is of a girlish
sweetness that fits with peculiar
beauty dhe Pitt Sing music, and If she
will restrain a musical comedy ten
dencv to talk ssome of her melodic
phrases she will be as true a. Gilbert
and Sullivan artist as though she had
heei when they were busy writing
masterpieces.
And the male and female chorus is
a delight 70 the eye and ear. while
the ensemble Of principals. choristers
and orchestra. together with the large
audience of last night proves very
conelusively and most reassuringly
that taste for this variety of art is
neither dead among ticket buyers nor
sleeping among the producers.