LYTTON’S STICKS
LAID BESIDE COFFIN LONDON, Aug. 20. Jesters’ sticks lay on a black velvet cushion beside the coffin when lovers of Gilbert and Sullivan opera said good-live to Sir Henry Lytton al Golders Green Crematorium to-day. They were sticks which Sir Hem;} held night after night in the char ac ter “Jack Point” in “Tho Yeomar of the Guard.’’ Three melodies wen nlaved from the operas with which his name was so closely linked. They were, “Hail Poetry’’ from “Tht Pirates of Penzance,’’ lolnnthe’s sons of the Lord Chancellor, and “I Hen: the Soft Note’’ from “Patience.” Sir Henfv died on .Saturday after i lengthy illness. He had appeared it thiTSavby operas for more than lml a century. •
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 3
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119LYTTON’S STICKS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19129, 25 September 1936, Page 3
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