No 5 -- June 1976 Edited by Michael Walters
CLIVE BARNES, New York Notebook, in The Times, May 15 1976, writes: "One particularly interesting bicentennial event has been the visit to New York of the D'Oyly Carte Opera's appearances in Gilbert & Sullivan. Now, it just so happens that I would only be found dead, rather than willing, at a performance by the D'Oyly Carte Opera, and few people are willing to accept me in that condition. So I decided, with some foresight, neither to review or even see, these terribly terribly, and quite terrible operettas. They are an acquired taste I have never acquired - they are to Britain what General Patton is to the United States. However, they have a following." No doubt Katisha would have retorted that Mr. Barnes has not yet got an educated palate.
BLOWING YOUR OWN TRUMPET. On 13th April, David Gribben addressed the Japan Society of London on "Advertising in Japan". I did not attend, but the Society Bulletin in its preamble, said :- "For sheer self-confidence and the kind of activity recommended by Robin Oakapple (alias Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd) it would be very hard to beat the notice to be read outside a carpenter's establishment on the Keihin Kokudo during the 1950s. This read 'Number One Furniture Maker in the World'."
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