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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 18 May 1907, Page 1

The announca.Ti'-int of the dtath of Mr Archibald Clavering. Gunler appairs simultaneously, with the publication of his new novel (now procurable in Nel*onY, " 'Twist Sword and Glove," a story of France in, tbe seventeenth cen tury. Mt Guttter, who died Ta Uew York on February 25. was lorn- at Liverpool in 1847. ;Hts novel' "Mr Parn*j?,o£ New: Y6-&" wis oup of tba n-ost successful* erer'/t nblisbed ; bnt -he Wis obliged to publish it himself," '*"..* .-■.•■ ' ' . ' Considerable, speculation went on in London when tbe la|t mail-left as to the rjasoti.' for the prohibition of "The Mikado," which. a3'*the cable messages last week have showh, appears to have been ordered by the Lord Chamberlain, because of the fearof Japanese susceptibilities. It was the intention of Mrs DOyly Carte that" the revival of "Patience" in th'ij present Pavoy performances ehould be followed by that of "The Mik»do,'' bufcto everybody's surprise it was announced sudienly-'that owing to the represehtations which had been made to her as to .the inadvisableness of reviving *The : Mikado," hßd come to the dec-sion not to prpi-Jnco that opera. The sotiVce o! these representations *n as. for ." some time' quit* mysterious. It fc'cei'taiuly refreshiD; to read (hit fay of the, works of Gilbert and Sullivan l.ave be'en banned from tbi eeusitive British stage. , After tbis, on* may never Ull what is likely to happen. An experience ' fn Yokohama of an amitenr draniatic performance" described by Lie jftenant- Colonel Newn-ham-Davisin the/'Tatler" shows that on the day of ttie performance, '■' Tha Mikado" being' the piece selected, "a peremptory or der, came fromTokio that the opera jraa*-nbfctb be played unless the title, was altered arid all illusions to the Emperor of Japan omitted. "The amateur actore;;* writes LieutenantColonel i NewnKam-Davis, "had quite forgotten that the Mikado is a sacrei personage as well aa a ruler, and that there were many good reasons why jokea shonld ribt'be made at his expense in his own tenitfyy. New posters announcing 'Three Little Maids from School' were hurriedly printed., tha headings of the programme were altered in red ink, and an afternoon rehearsal was called, at which the Mikado was rechristened a Dalinio. What the performance* was like can be imagined without any attempting, to describe it."