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Recollections of Arthur Sullivanve unsatisfactory. Shortly afterwards a new opera by an almost unknown but not impecunious composer was brought out in London, and on the following Sunday Sullivan’s notice appeared in our columns. I was personally much struck with the article. The style was as clear as the handwriting — and to thos

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William Schwenck Gilbert: an Autobiographyrand. I was educated privately at Great Ealing and at King’s College, intending to finish up at Oxford. But in 1855, when I was nineteen years old, the Crimean war was at its height, and commissions in the Royal Artillery were thrown open to competitive examination. So I gave up all idea of Oxford,

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My Lifetime immediately. Its literary merits were very great, and it could be read with pleasure. It was in three acts, and was called . I engaged Mr Sam Emery and Mr Henry Neville for the cast, and used Mr John Clayton, and also engaged a very charming little actress named Rosina Ranoe, who is now loved and a

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Portraits of the Eighties. Over that signature the ballads came out which were published later in the book. And he could draw, too: his gift for comic strokes was only second to his gift for comic words. He had even begun with the strokes before the words, for I think that he had comically illustrated some of his father’s b

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London Letters and Some Othersst doubtful that can be paid to a writer ambitious of social distinction. Mr Gilbert’s social ambitions are understood to be limited; he does not care for society, much as society cares for him. He prefers friendships, close intimacies, the continued companionship of a small circle of chosen associa

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Anglo-American Memories, Second Seriesrican papers do likewise. Not only eulogies but anecdotes abound. It is as if every story, every repartee, every pun or quip of his had been stored up as it appeared, and now they fill columns. It may not be possible to quote one saying of his which has not been quoted during these last few days, an

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Real Conversationsmy optimism — that if you were now beginning your career, you would find the circumstances more propitious to serious work than you did in the ‘sixties and ‘seventies. It was you yourself — was it not? — who complained in those days of the tyranny of ‘the young girl in the dress-circle’. Well, the y