"The Yeomen of the Guard; or The Merryman and his Maid," which the Shanghai A.D.C. are This plot is worked out with most attractive characterize-_ a okie, worked out tion. Sergeant Meryll, for example, is sketched in as the soldier" widower who had successfully evaded further matrimonial adventures only now busily rehearsing for production next month, is a favourite opera among the followers of Gilbert and Sullivan. Apart from its musical merits, which bring it very nearly to the plane of grand opera, the play itself seems' to have been worked out with greater thoroughness than most of the others in the famous weries, Let the story be told.
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