The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-04-27
ARRIVE;
MOST GORGEOUS
WILL ADD BRILLIANCY TO THE
MIKADO TO BE PRESENTED
THURSDAY NIGHT.
Full Theatre Orchestra Engaged-Re.
served Seat Sale Has
Opened.

No more beautiful production will
Mikado which will be given at the uni
versity auditorium next Thursday
night with a cast and chorus of 46
people under direction of Professor
| e. H. Storer. 1t was announced today
that the costumes which had been es-
pecially ordered for the occasion had
arrived from New York City direct.
The costumes are beautiful and will
form no small part in lending brillian-
cy to the production.
The Mikado is being produced in
Moscow at a great expense and it is
assured that the public will be treated
to a semi-professional production.
There will be a full theatre orchestra
in attendance and the scenic efforts
attractions given in the larger cities.
The seat sale was opened today and
already many reservations have been
made, the reserved seat sale being held
at the Corner Drug Store
OF all English composers, perhaps /
the most honored and the most loved
has been Sir Arthur Sullivan. Few
have been gifted with so
rich vein of melody as Sullivan, and
in all his works there is a human ap-
peal which seldom fails to attract peo-
.f Ill IT.
ties. The popularity of the Gilbert
and Sullivan operas has been phen-
and the recent revival of The
'Iikado in New York has shown con-
vincingly that their drawing power is :
till great Undoubtedly much of this
S due to w. S. Gilbert, whose keen, !.
ncisive wit pierces through the shams
nd follies of life with shaft of light
o bright that he is comparable only :
With the greatest of England's wits:
swift, Sheridan, Thackerry and
dickens, in this regard. Nevertheless,
is wit was never so keen that Sulli- j,
an failed to give it point with his
lusic, and in the tender passages
ullivan even excelled his collaboration
S tender a melody as any ever writ
IN, for all the foolery lurking be-
cath it. "
1t must not be forgotten, however, o,
at Sullivan was serious musician, -,
4pable of the very highest kind of
ork. Such compositions as The Gold
Legend The Light of the World,
le Martyr of Antioch, the In Memoir re
n overture, and numberless songs Sc
d anthems, glees and madrigals ge
ow that had he chosen to devote dis
mself to following in the old ruts bu
might have been highly successful. sic
!, chose, instead, to make the world by
Ugh, and the world particularly the Of
glish world, was the better for it. rec
vertheless, his services must not be at
gotten. His work in conjunction opl
tn Sir George Grove brought to he;
hit some Schubert manuscripts, and pri
much to bring about an interest the
Schuberts music in England More the
II, Sullivan did fine educational tur
TX as head of the National Training
lool and also as director of the :.
,menade Concerts at Covent Gar
/, which have since developed into
Queens Hall Concerts, though, of .s
rsee, the latter undertaking has
relation to the former. In fact, ~,
re can be little question that Sulli- .
s success in light operate forms ;aa,,
much to make the English people
Iize that music can be beautiful, -.
n though it is not oratorio, and in
way Sullivan laid the foundation =.
the present splendid efforts being -
lie on behalf of music in England