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The Creative Muddle
Krutch, Joseph Wood | October 24, 1936 issue

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In a fit of irritation author Mike Gold once denounced W.S. Gilbert as little better than a fascist ahead of his time. He may have been thinking of the anti-egalitarian sentiments expressed in "The Gondoliers" or perhaps of the irony implicit in the picture of a democratic navy as it is presented in "Pinafore." But in either event he was, in a way, paying the librettist a compliment which he did not deserve, for the truth of the matter is that Gilbert hadn't the slightest idea what he was and that, in all probability, he would have ceased to write with such sprightly perverseness if he had ever been able to find out.

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CREATIVE ability; GONDOLIERS, The (Theatrical production); GILBERT, W. S.; DRAMATISTS; CREATION (Literary, artistic, etc.); GOLD, Michael, 1894-1967
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