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Part I. Gilbert and Sullivan -- Introductory. A triangle ; The virtue of three ; The Three Musketeers and the Three Savoyards ; Brotherhood of the Savoy ; Mrs. D'Oyly Carte ; Dedication of this book -- Conjunction of Gilbert, Sullivan, and D'Oyly Carte ; Gilbert's early work ; Fairy comedies ; "Pygmalion and Galatea" ; "Sweethearts" ; "Bab ballads" ; Sullivan at the Chapel Royal ; His first song ; Disciple of Mendelssohn ; At the R.A.M. ; Mendelssohn scholarship ; Leipsic ; "Tempest" music ; D'Oyly Carte's early career ; His musical agency ; Royalty theatre ; "Thespis" ; First night at Gaiety theatre compared with the Savoy premiere -- "Trial by jury" ; Fred Sullivan ; Nelly Bromley ; Penley ; Compton benefit ; Nellie Farren benefit ; Gilbert's appearance in "Trial by jury" -- "Trial by jury" (continued) ; Comedy opera company ; Opera comique theatre ; "The sorcerer" ; Selecting the first G. and S. Company ; The old school and the new -- Selection of principal artists ; Gilbert's musical knowledge ; Mrs. Howard Paul ; George Grossmith ; Rutland Barrington ; Original cast of "Sorcerer" ; Press opinions ; "Dora's dream" ; "The spectre knight" -- Building "H.M.S. Pinafore" ; Sullivan's versatility ; Production of "H.M.S. Pinafore" ; Cast ; Gilbert as stage-manager ; Clever draughtsman ; Rehearsals ; "Gagging" prohibited ; Sullivan at rehearsals -- Francois Cellier succeeds his brother Alfred as musical director ; Comedy opera company's quarrel with D'Oyly Carte ; In the law courts ; Fracas at opera comique ; Richard Barker injured ; Directors at Bow Street Police court ; Gilbert, Sullivan, and D'Oyly Carte's visit to America to secure dramatic rights ; Michael Gunn, locum tenens ; Richard Barker's children's company in "H.M.S. Pinafore" -- "The Pirates of Penzance" in America ; Gilbertian darts ; "Pirates" produced at opera comique ; The critics -- "Pirates of Penzance" copyright performance ; Fred Billington ; Richard Mansfield ; Federici ; John Le Hay ; Cast of "The Pirates" in New York ; American musical trades union ; "U.S.S. Pinafore" ; German "Pinafore" ; Marion Hood ; Sir George Power ; Julia Gwynne ; Emily Cross -- D'Oyly Carte plans new theatre ; The aesthetic craze ; "Patience" ; Burnand and Du Maurier's creations ; "The colonel" ; Durward Lely ; Frank Thornton ; Alice Barnett ; Leonora Braham ; "Patience" rehearsals and production ; British play-goers ; Success of "Patience" ; Lyric gems from "Patience" -- Building of the Savoy ; Testing fire-extinguishers ; "Star-Harden Grenades" ; D'Oyly Carte's address to the public -- Opening of the Savoy ; False prophets ; Electric lighting ; No fees ; Strike of incandescents ; A Gilbertian riddle ; "Patience" transplanted to Savoy ; Inexhaustible power of "The Three" ; The orchestra ; The bandsmen and Gilbert's satire ; Renewed triumph of "Patience" -- "Iolanthe" ; Peers delighted ; M.P.'s enthusiastic ; Captain Shaw ; Procession of peers ; Gorgeous spectacle ; Sky-borders abolished ; "Iolanthe" in America ; Carte's enterprise ; "Iolanthe" and the "gods" ; Charles Manners as the sentry ; Press notices ; An unique criticism -- "Princess Ida" ; Poet's imagination ; Solomon, Shakespeare, and Shaw ; Tennyson's "Princess" ; Gilbert and old-fashioned burlesques ; "The Princess" at Olympic ; A Yorkshire critic ; An old lady's view of "H.M.S. Pinafore" ; Costumes and scenery ; Premier of "Princess Ida" ; Sir Arthur Sullivan's illness ; Leonora Brahm's success ; Henry Bracey ; Times' critic on "Princess Ida" -- Theatrical first nights ; Professional play-goers ; Premiere Savoyards ; Establishment of the "queue" ; Refining influence of "Gilbert and Sullivan" ; Taming of the Hooligan ; Gallery and pit concerts ; First nights behind the curtain ; Gilbert recalls first night at the Olympic -- Away from the Savoy ; Gilbert and Sullivan's leisure hours ; Disquisition on their aims and achievements ; Town sparrows and eagles ; Gilbert and Sullivan's loftiest productions ; Sullivan's devotion to home and the country ; A "disciple of the beautiful" ; Sullivan's highest inspirations ; Another type of the English composer ; A chapel-royal story ; Sullivan's music, sacred and secular ; Plagiarism ; Sullivan's candour ; Comic song as church "Voluntary" ; Sullivan and his critics -- Sir Arthur Sullivan in private life ; Alone with the composer ; His leading characteristics ; Society's idol ; Sullivan's visit to the Riviera ; His entourage ; Work and recreation in the sunny south ; Sullivan's pets ; Parrot stories ; Arthur Sullivan knighted -- Revival of "The Sorcerer" ; Success exceeds that of original production ; Rutland Barrington as a singer ; Paper battle between Cellier and Barrington ; Changes in "Sorcerer" cast ; Revival of "Trial by jury" ; Durward Lely and Florence Dysart ; Altered taste of play-goers -- Interlude -- Part II. Gilbert, Sullivan, D'Oyly Carte, and Vellier -- Francois Cellier -- The juvenile "Pirates of Penzance" -- "The Mikado". False prophets ; A foreign subject ; Japanese village at Knightsbridge ; Queen Victoria's gift to Emperor of Japan ; English society becomes Japanesey ; Gilbert discovers new material ; The author originates his leading dramatis personae ; No character taken from Japanese history ; No Samurais introduced and why ; A Japanese dancer and a Geisha engaged to coach the Savoy Company ; Savoyards transformed into Japs ; Amusing rehearsals ; "The Three Little Maids" excel as students ; Costumes and accessories ; Cast of "The Mikado" ; The critics ; Punch's view of "The Mikado" ; George Grossmith's "understandings" ; Succes of "The Mikado" in London and New York ; Sullivan entertains Prince of Wales at dinner ; H.R.H. listens to performance of the opera through telephone -- Savoy secrecy ; Press reporters eager for news ; A Pall Mall Gazette squib ; Heard in the stalls ; Interview with Gilbert ; Dr. Louis Engel of The World ; His advance notice of Sullivan's music to forthcoming opera ; More rumours concerning new opera ; Great demand for seats for "Ruddygore" ; High society to join in pit and gallery queues ; In New York tickets for first night sold by auction -- "Ruddygore". Distinguished audience on first night ; Reason why "Ruddygore" has not been revived ; Enormous outlay ; "Ruddygore" not universally approved ; "Boos" ; Were they intended for the opera or for Lord Randolph Churchill, who was conspicuous in the stalls? ; "Ruddygore" a skit on transpontine melodrama ; Gilbert's humour misunderstood ; Offence given to both English and French navy men ; Gilbert challenged to duel ; "Ruddygore" becomes "Ruddigore" ; Sullivan's music greatly praised ; Gilbert's remarks about "Ruddigore" in speech made at dinner of O.P. Club -- The story of "Ruddigore, or the Witch's Curse" ; Superb mounting ; The acting ; Jessie Bond and Durward Lely -- Recreations ; River trips ; Celebration dinners and suppers -- Series of revivals ; "H.M.S. Pinafore" ; Geraldine Ulmar ; J.G. Robinson ; Rosina Brandram's Little Buttercup ; A Bermuda bumboat woman ; Sydney Smith Dickens ; Dinah's tea-party ; "The Pirates of Penzance" ; "The Mikado" ; Rutland Barrington's secession ; Barrington opens St. James's theatre ; Success of Savoy revivals -- "The yeoman of the guard" ; Gilbert curbs his pegasus ; Gilbert and Sullivan's masterpiece ; Sullivan's favorite opera ; The lyrics ; Scene between Phoebe, Meryll, and Wilfred Shadbolt ; The two Savoy Jessies ; Sullivan's puzzle in setting "I have a song to sing, O" ; Triumph of musical construction ; Peppermint bulls'-eyes at stage rehearsal ; Tales of two Jessies -- The value of contrast studied by the Three Savoyards ; Gilbert as true portrait-painter and as caricaturist ; The author's pet hobby ; Gilbert resumes the role of Jester ; Collaborators mentally transport themselves from the Tower of London to the sunny south ; Gilbert discovers characters for Venetian opera ; Introduces them to Sullivan ; Gondolieri and Contadine ; The plot outlined ; Original cast of "The Gondoliers" ; George Grossmith's name missing from Savoy bills for the first time ; Return of Rutland Barrington ; Enthusiastic reception of "The Gondoliers" ; Sullivan's difficult task in composing "The Gondoliers" ; Press notices ; A captious critic ; Evidence of "Gondoliers'" success ; Visits of royalty to the Savoy ; Queen Victoria's command performance at Windsor castle ; Chappell & Co.'s first issue of "Gondoliers" score, etc. ; Sullivan tells how he unconsciously annoyed sensitive member of audience -- The historian's wiser diplomacy ; The rift in the lute ; A storm in a teacup grows into a serious tempest ; The Three Savoyards quarrel and go to law ; Casus belli: a carpet ; Dissolution of partnership ; Gilbert collaborates with Alfred Cellier on "The Mountebanks" ; Gilbert's speech at O.P. Club's dinner -- D'Oyly Carte's difficult position ; Sullivan collaborates with Sydney Grundy ; Production of "Nautch Girl" ; Carte's generalship ; "The Vicar of Bray" revived ; "Mountebanks" produced at the Lyric theatre ; Alfred Cellier's illness and death ; Letter from Arthur Sullivan to Francois Cellier ; "Haddon Hall" ; Sullivan welcomed back ; Sydney Grundy's lyrics ; The McCrankie ; Scotch dialect in English opera ; Prejudice of Savoyards ; Sydney Grundy writes to the papers ; Successful run of "Haddon Hall" -- "Jane Annie" ; J.M. Barrie and A. Conan Doyle ; The historian's thankless task ; Ernest Ford's music ; The master and student ; Cast of "Jane Annie" ; Caledonian golfers ; "Bunker" and "bunkum" ; Gilbert and Sullivan, re-united, start work on a new opera ; General rejoicings -- |
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Reunion of the three Savoyard chiefs ; Their "welcome home" at the Savoy ; Production of Utopia ; Another topsy-turvy piece ; "Old fashioned" Savoy opera proves acceptable ; Samples of Gilbert's song-words ; Another tenor comedian ; A Gilbertian love-scene -- "Utopia" (continued). Cast of the opera ; A new Savoy prima donna ; Debut of Miss Nancy McIntosh ; More samples of Gilbert's lyrics and dialogue ; "Utopia" a popular success ; Utopian court drawing-room ; Displeasure in high places -- Fortune on the ebb ; "Mirette" ; "The Chieftain" ; Revival of "The Mikado" ; Apathy of Savoyards ; "The Grand-Duke" ; Madame Ilka von Palmay ; The last Gilbert and Sullivan opera ; Mikado again revived - 1,000th performance of "The Mikado" ; Retirement of Jessie Bond ; "His Majesty" ; Sir Alexander Mackenzie's music ; First revival of "The Yeoman of the Guard" ; "The Grand-Duchess" ; Offenbach and Sullivan ; First revival of "The Gondoliers" -- "The Beauty Stone". Collaboration of Pinero, Comyns Carr, and Sullivan ; Romantic musical drama ; Good music v. bad music ; Old and new music ; Sir Alexander Mackenzie's esteem for Sir Arthur Sullivan ; Letter from Sir Alexander ; His Sullivan lectures ; The present author airs his personal views ; "The Golden Legend" ; A letter from Sullivan ; Pinero's libretto ; Comyns Carr's lyrics ; "Beauty Stone" unsuited to Savoy ; Ruth Vincent ; Pauline Joran ; Walter Passmore plays "The Devil" ; Emmie Owen, "The Dare-devil" -- Revivals: "Gondoliers," "Sorcerer," "Trial by Jury" ; "The Lucky Star" ; Sullivan and Basil Hood collaborate ; "The Rose of Persia" ; Wilfrid Bendall ; Captain Basil Hood as a librettist ; "A Happy Ending" ; Sullivan and "The Absent-minded Beggar" ; The narrator's last meeting with Sullivan -- Second revival of "Pirates of Penzance" ; First revival of "Patience" ; Success of the aesthetic opera ; Gilbert and D'Oyly Carte take their last "call" together at the Savoy ; Illness and death of Sullivan ; Mr. B.W. Findon's account of the last days of the composer ; Sir Arthur Sullivan's funeral -- How the narrator heard of Sullivan's death ; Irish sympathy and regret ; Edward German completes Sullivan's unfinished work, "The Emerald Isle" ; Illness and death of D'Oyly Carte ; Brief memoir of the Savoy manager ; A characteristic anecdote -- The D'Oyly Carte touring company. Discipline and esprit de corps ; Unabated enthusiasm in the provinces ; A classic acting-manager ; No "fish" stories admitted ; Fred Billington's views and experiences ; Gilbert and Sullivan operas in America, Africa, and the Continent ; English theatre orchestras compared with German ; State subsidy ; George Grossmith and George Thorne ; Johannesburg ; An absconding dresser ; Billington and Workman robbed ; Francois Cellier's visits to Africa ; Henry A. Lytton ; Gilbertian actor of many parts ; Touring ; Its bright and its dark side ; Company snowed up ; Leicester Tunks' birthday supper-party ; The Gilbert and Sullivan operas in Oxford and Cambridge -- Concerning amateurs. Influence of Gilbert and Sullivan operas on amateur acting ; Establishment and growth of operatic and dramatic societies ; Business control and discipline puts an end to the old style of "go-as-you-please" ; A few tales about unprofessional players -- "The Emerald Isle" ; Hood and German's collaboration ; Sullivan's swan-song ; The fairy cleaner ; "The Emerald Isle" in Dublin ; Mrs. D'Oyly Carte resumes management with revivals ; A gala last night ; A pleasant surprise ; Mr. C.H. Workman manager of the Savoy ; "Fallen Fairies" ; A story concerning "Jack Point" at rehearsal ; Death of Sir William Gilbert -- Sir William Gilbert -- Tribute to Mrs. D'Oyly Carte -- Salve Atque Vale. |
