Jon Johanning wrote:

>...  Quite a few other examples of racist and sexist language can be found
>in the operettas, of course; it's a shame that such brilliant writing is
>marred by these specimens of 19th-century culture.

During WWII, a summer camp production of *The Mikado* started off w/ the
words,

"If you want to know who we are,
 We are the gangsters from Japan...."

Walter Meyer