Walter Meyer ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>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...."

The Mikado was once actually banned in Britain. c1911 AIR because of a
visit by the Emperor of Japan.

I also believe it was The Mikado which the late Sir Ernest Macmillan
directed at a POW during WWI.

Trouble was, he had no score. So he wrote it all out from memory.....

Deryk Barker
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