The Magazine Project

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PRESS:aZ Vol. 1 (6/1994)

This is probably the crown jewel of my magazine collection, a magazine from Osaka that contains the first interview with Pride of mind (as well as an interview with JUBILEE for any gothic crusaders out there) In terms of exclusive content and graphic design it's the best. I actually wonder if they shared a clipart bank with Er.

Supposedly there was a second issue in-press which would have featured interviews with Er and oxbxjxe, but no one's ever found one.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/pressaz1.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/pressaz1_150dpi.pdf

Also, here's another Gilbert and Sullivan Journal from September 1966:
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep66.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep66_150dpi.pdf

Even if you're not interested in light opera, this may strike a chord for any collectors out there. The headline this time is a large auction of Sir Arthur's manuscript scores, sold off by his nephew's widow. I'm sure everyone will feel a twinge of familiarity when they read:

Some people suggested that there was no need to make a fuss, if photo-copies could be made. But this suggestion would have depreciated the sale value of the scores.

Substitute "tape rip" for "photocopy" and this could have been written today about any number of musical rarities.

The situation wasn't entirely dire, as it seems various people got a peek at the scores and Gregg Press published at least one in facsimile form.
And some of the scores from this collection eventually made it online, such as "The Mikado":
https://archive.org/details/GB-Lam_MS6/mode/2up

 

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Imperfection Vol. 9 (7/1996)

This second-to-last issue of "Imperfection is almost entirely devoted to live reports for two "Imperfection Presents" live events. Most notably this includes Pride of mind's disband in March 1996 - you can also see a session band by Kamijo and Machi from LAREINE, as well as various less-known and less-favored bands.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection9.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection9_150dpi.pdf

Meanwhile, returning to the Swinging Sixties, we're up to January 1967 in the land of musical theater:
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan67.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan67_150dpi.pdf

Most interesting thing here is an article on George Bernard Shaw and his connection with the Savoy operas.
As the dust settled from the big auction/dispersal of Sir Arthur Sullivan's scores, people did seem to get a peek into long-hidden material - we see an article on "The Zoo" which had completely vanished from public view until someone bought the autograph score off that old widow. Since then it was apparently performed and recorded at least once, though I haven't heard it myself.
Can we do as well when it comes to preserving and reviving unique material? I hope so.

 

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Imperfection Vol. 10 (8/1996)

The final volume of "Imperfection" is over 100 pages long (you're welcome) and serves as a sendoff for what was clearly a pillar of the community.
Pretty much anyone who was anyone in the indies visual-kei scene (and many who were no one) contributed well-wishes, messages, and whatnot.
Malice Mizer (Kozi and Gackt only), Lareine, La:Sadies, Maschera, Siam Shade, and many others make appearances.
And yes, I know the pages are not all aligned. Part of that is just how it really was (these were laid out by hand, often shoddily) and part due to the binding being difficult to work with, much like a lot of these indies mags. It's as good as I can do without disbinding the pages.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection10.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection10_150dpi.pdf


As for Gilbert and Sullivan, we're now up to May 1967. The most notable feature this time is an article on a lost song for "Patience" which was mostly recovered out of Sullivan's autograph score from the big auction. The words and instrumental music were rediscovered, but not the melody, so the conductor who did all this digging reconstructed his own melody for a performance.
Interestingly, this lost song was not part of the "Patience" performance I saw earlier this year. I wonder if it never caught on, if no one else wanted to do a reconstruction (this particular one being under copyright), or what.
There's also some research into English and French precedents for "Cox and Box", and a little note about Prince (now King) Charles playing the Pirate King in "Pirates of Penzance" as a schoolboy at Gordonstoun, with his mother the Queen in attendance

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may67.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may67_150dpi.pdf

 

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QUARTER MAZE Vol. 4 (early 1994?)

This is the final issue of "QUARTER MAZE", which includes long features on VOGUE (later known as nuvo:gu), BAISER, and others. If you're an old-school diehard this might be right up your alley. Malice Mizer's Mana and Yu~ki show up in a section about "Beauty Routines of the VK Stars" - Mana's a Pantene man
As with other issues, there is no specific pressing date, but based on the CDs and lives it refers to, it was most probably early 1994.
I have issue #1 also, which I'll scan at some point. #2, which I don't have, goes for about a trillion dollars online because it has some band nobody ever heard of called L'arc-en-Ciel. They probably never amounted to anything.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/quartermaze4.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/quartermaze4_150dpi.pdf

At the Savoy Theatre: September 1967 was a bit of a dull issue. Probably the only thing with lasting interest is some more performance history on "Patience" - the evolution of the costuming and scenery.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep67.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep67_150dpi.pdf

 

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Imperfection Vol. 2 (7/1994)
Featuring Laputa, Siam Shade, and a bunch of bands that made no mark whatsoever on world culture.
It seems the magazine itself served as a sort of management office for some of the no-name bands.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection2.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection2_150dpi.pdf

January '68 at the Savoy:
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan68.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan68_150dpi.pdf
Most notable this time round is an article on the early drafts of "Utopia Limited". There are also reviews of films, including a newly-released cartoon version of "Ruddigore" that you can still find on Youtube: Link
One angry letter to the editor complains about some outright fanfiction submitted in the previous issue

 

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Imaginative Vol. 7 (mid-1996?)

This will appeal to students of performance history - leaving aside the interviews featured on the cover there is a very large amount of live reportage from late 1995 and early 1996 featuring a number of the bigger indie sensations of the day. Kneuklid Romance, ROUAGE, FANATIC+CRISIS, and SOPHIA were reported on, among others.
The latest date mentioned in here is April 1996 so the magazine was presumably released for sale sometime in mid-1996.
As for the bands with interview features, Plastic Tree I believe is the only one to have made any lasting mark.
Sanbika is most notable for spamming out over 100 releases in their few years of activity. I don't know why.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imaginative7.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imaginative7_150dpi.pdf

G&S Journal for May 1968:
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may68.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may68_150dpi.pdf

Notable entries this time include a review of the new D'Oyly Carte production of "The Gondoliers", and a one-off novelty performance of "Patience" where the pre-Raphaelite aesthetes were modernized into hippies
That one was just an abbreviated selection of scenes, but in the next issue there's another hippie production in full. This was right around the same time as "Hair" hit the stage (April '68 on Broadway, September in the West End) - clearly those damn hippies were at the forefront of the artistic zeitgeist.

 

[Cantavanda]

holy moly! You're doing such an important job with these.

 

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Après Guerre Vol. 22 (10/1997)

Live reportage and band profiles, as per the usual - featured bands as listed on the cover.
The Lareine live photo really is that poor-quality in the original. The bands in the "DEAD ONE PRESENTS" section all have member enquetes/profiles.
Lareine's live on 8/29/1997 was supposedly their "return to angst-pop", featuring a setlist of:
kisetsufuu
saikai no hana
MIST
DEATH PIANO

Kamijo and Mayu give ostensible real names in their profiles - Kamijo's might be the real spelling of his commonly known name, but I have no idea about Mayu,
Kamijo claims his least favorite type of girl is "lolitas"! Poor guy.

Early mention of Da'vid/shito:aL here as well, for their first omnibus appearance - aptly described as "Strange-feeling music" XD

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre22.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre22_150dpi.pdf

On the Strand, we're skipping ahead to January 1971 as we hit a hole in my collection.
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan71.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan71_150dpi.pdf

Notable bits:
- The D'Oyly Carte company visited Denmark... which actually had a preexisting tradition of presenting the Savoy operas translated into Danish. Even though it's our closest sibling language, that must be a remarkable feat.
- "The Sorcerer" being revived after a 32-year absence from the stage. (A lot of the "stage rarities" seem to be performed much more often now - I'm actually seeing this in April)
- An electric-guitar version of "Pinafore" done in Virginia
- Some notes on pre-"Dracula" vampire stories
- And another hippie production of "Patience" which I'll reproduce the notes on in full

"Patience" Delayed
DEAR MR. EDITOR. - Mr. Nathaniel Gwinn ("Patience for the Philistines," May, 1970, JOURNAL) and other readers may be interested to learn of perhaps the "hippiest" of all productions of Patience. Produced at U.S. Army Fort Dix, New Jersey in April and May, 1969, was Doris deLay; or, A Piece of the Action, "adapted from Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience" by Howard Richardson and Elwyn Dearborn. Gilbert's libretto was virtually paraphrased into hippie slang.
Grosvenor, renamed yippie "Cock Robin," sang to the "Mod Chick" chorus not of a silver churn but of hippie beads. Patience ("Doris deLay") discarded her milk pail for a stenographer's pad and became a researcher for "Time" (the weekly news magazine) on assignment to do research on the "New, New Left" among the hippies of the East Village, New York City. The musical numbers were given a hard rock beat and "scored" for rhythm and lead guitars, electric organ, and percussion. Gilbert's theme remained paramount.
Though many of us may see and read about these productions with amusement, let not others of us worry about them. In the years to come, "hippie" Patiences will be curiosities remembered vaguely and mentioned briefly in historical works on the operas along with Hot and Swing Mikados.
Richmond, Va. RALPH C. MACPHAIL, JR.

I wish I could have seen this Our correspondent didn't go far enough though, it isn't even a footnote in history. There's absolutely no trace left except one pamphlet buried in a collection of ephemera in Ohio State's library.
Don't laugh too hard at the benighted denizens of that blighted decade known as "the 70s" though. After all, we went through a solid decade of "Pirates of Penzance" productions populated entirely by Captain Jack Sparrow ripoffs.

holy moly! You're doing such an important job with these.

Care to join in? Aren't you supposedly sitting on some magazines or articles with cultural interest?

 

[Cantavanda]

oh yeah, I will.
First I need order and organisation in my collection though... Boxes to catalog and organise. Thousands of magazine clippings to go through... A big mess to arrange... Will still take like 2-3 months. After that I'll scan my clippings and minikomi

 

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Après Guerre Vol. 22 (10/1997)

Live reportage and band profiles, as per the usual - featured bands as listed on the cover.
The Lareine live photo really is that poor-quality in the original. The bands in the "DEAD ONE PRESENTS" section all have member enquetes/profiles.
Lareine's live on 8/29/1997 was supposedly their "return to angst-pop", featuring a setlist of:
kisetsufuu
saikai no hana
MIST
DEATH PIANO

Kamijo and Mayu give ostensible real names in their profiles - Kamijo's might be the real spelling of his commonly known name, but I have no idea about Mayu,
Kamijo claims his least favorite type of girl is "lolitas"! Poor guy.

Early mention of Da'vid/shito:aL here as well, for their first omnibus appearance - aptly described as "Strange-feeling music" XD

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre22.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre22_150dpi.pdf

On the Strand, we're skipping ahead to January 1971 as we hit a hole in my collection.
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan71.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan71_150dpi.pdf

Notable bits:
- The D'Oyly Carte company visited Denmark... which actually had a preexisting tradition of presenting the Savoy operas translated into Danish. Even though it's our closest sibling language, that must be a remarkable feat.
- "The Sorcerer" being revived after a 32-year absence from the stage. (A lot of the "stage rarities" seem to be performed much more often now - I'm actually seeing this in April)
- An electric-guitar version of "Pinafore" done in Virginia
- Some notes on pre-"Dracula" vampire stories
- And another hippie production of "Patience" which I'll reproduce the notes on in full



I wish I could have seen this Our correspondent didn't go far enough though, it isn't even a footnote in history. There's absolutely no trace left except one pamphlet buried in a collection of ephemera in Ohio State's library.
Don't laugh too hard at the benighted denizens of that blighted decade known as "the 70s" though. After all, we went through a solid decade of "Pirates of Penzance" productions populated entirely by Captain Jack Sparrow ripoffs.


Care to join in? Aren't you supposedly sitting on some magazines or articles with cultural interest?

Nice to see an early live lareine photo on this.

 

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QUARTER MAZE Vol. 1 (late 1992?)
Probably only of interest to the most dyed-in-the-wool oldschoolers. The biggest feature here is on Amphibian and their 2nd anniversary live event.
DDT was one of the bands on the famous "Nervous Night" omnibus, which is mentioned in their interview. Turns out they got their band name from "Kouji from the band Matenrou". That guy probably never amounted to anything.
The latest things mentioned in here as being in the past are from July 1992, so I assume this issue was from late 1992 or thereabouts.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/quartermaze1.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/quartermaze1_150dpi.pdf

May 1971 in G&S land:
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may71.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may71_150dpi.pdf

The main event this time is coverage of the D'Oyly Carte's revival of "The Sorcerer", which was by all accounts a triumph.
There's also an article on Sullivan's "Ivanhoe" and its reception, both contemporary and modern. Shaw wasn't a fan.
In other old news, Gilbert's former home at Grim's Dyke was restored to operation around this time. It's still around as a hotel which you can visit: https://grimsdyke.com/

 

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Imperfection Vol. 7 (12/1995)

Featuring nothing in particular - bands as listed on the cover. Tetsu Takano (ex-Malice Mizer) shows up in the "SEIJI [BLUME]" section.
Some pages are cut off at the gutter, as sometimes happens with these.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection7.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection7_150dpi.pdf

G&SJ for September 1971:
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep71.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep71_150dpi.pdf

Featuring notes on "Thespis", Gilbert's possible inspiration from Tennyson, the only surviving recording of an original Savoyard, a D'Oyly Carte exhibition featuring original costumes, and so on. Also another hippie "Patience"
I'm not sure where the notes on that hippie "Pirates" production are, I think maybe in one of the previous issues I already posted.

 

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Imperfection Vol. 8 (2/1996)

This issue has a long feature on La'Cryma Christi, a disband interview with SCARE CROW, and an interview with Pride of mind at the time of the "Systems of Romance" release. Also, as shown on the cover, a bunch of other bands that made minimal marks on world culture.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection8.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/imperfection8_150dpi.pdf

G&SJ for January 1972:
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan72.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_jan72_150dpi.pdf

Nothing much of particular interest this time. There's an invitation included for the Society Convention on May 13 1972, but if you haven't RSVPed already you're about 52 years too late.

 

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Après Guerre Vol. 26 (6/1998 )
Bands as featured on the cover. There's also a small ad for Hisui's middle-period activity near the back.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre26.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre26_150dpi.pdf

Gilbert and Sullivan Journal for May '72:

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may72.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_may72_150dpi.pdf

Most notably featuring excerpts from the autobiography of Ilka Palmay, a Hungarian actress who came to London to play in "The Grand Duke". Has some interesting bits about what it was like for an outsider to come to the Savoy and meet the principals.
Also featured: notes on a revival of "The Zoo".

Also:

- The D'Oyly Carte company visited Denmark... which actually had a preexisting tradition of presenting the Savoy operas translated into Danish. Even though it's our closest sibling language, that must be a remarkable feat.

There's actually a German production going on this summer in Dortmund:
https://www.theaterdo.de/produktionen/detail/oper-erleben-die-piraten-von-penzance/
But it seems maybe only the dialogue is translated, not the music.

 

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Après Guerre Vol. 27 (8/1998 )
The "5th anniversary of the first issue" issue. (What else would it be the anniversary of?) Bands as featured on the cover. Another, somewhat longer mini-feature on middle-period Hisui near the back as well.
Kisaki had an ongoing column in these late AG issues if anyone has a particular interest in the inner world of an utter wretch.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre27.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre27_150dpi.pdf

Gilbert and Sullivan Journal for September 1972:

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep72.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_sep72_150dpi.pdf

This is the 21st and final issue of Volume IX. Apparently you could send away to have full volumes bound together with a title page and index added, but I've never seen this - it's hard enough to find these issues at all. The copies I consulted at the New York Public Library were bound, but not a full volume at a time.
Highlights this time:
- Another Sullivan autograph score, "Cox and Box", sold off to foreign hoarders
- A comical encounter between a young P. G. Wodehouse and W. S. Gilbert
- A "Pirates of Penzance" production with the dialogue translated into Maltese - makes the German production I mentioned above look positively pedestrian!
- A report on the society convention mentioned above in the January '72 issue
- The second half of Ilka Palmay's Savoy reminiscences

 

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Après Guerre Vol. 28 (10/1998 )
Another Apres Guerre issue featuring nothing in particular. Raphael is probably the only thing in here of remote interest to cultural critics.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre28.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre28_150dpi.pdf


Gilbert and Sullivan Journal for Spring 1973:

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_spring73.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_spring73_150dpi.pdf

We're starting Volume X in early 1973 here - still published three times a year but now called "Spring/Summer/Autumn" instead of "January/May/September".
Notable entries this time:
- A cookbook assembled and published by Gilbert's widow
- Notes on Sullivan's royalty contracts with publishers
- An alternate version of one of Gilbert's early pre-Sullivan operettas, "Creatures of Impulse"
- A revised/altered production of "Utopia Limited" by the Parish of Cheam Operatic Society. It's a notably weak work created under difficult conditions, so the urge to adapt or cut material has always been strong.
- A Society Tie can be yours for one pound sterling or three dollars! They're probably sold out by now though.

 

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Après Guerre Vol. 30 (3/1999)
So, in the life of every small-press music editor comes that certain, ineluctable moment when you realize you're never going to be assembling an Algonquin Round Table of musical personalities trading bon mots while sipping revolting Italian digestifs with pretentious names, and you'll just be publishing more dating profiles for half-baked chinpira for the foreseeable future.
For the editorship of "Apres Guerre", this moment came in early 1999, when they temporarily suspended publication for a retool after issue #30. After this "last hurrah" they returned in late 1999; from issue #31 onward, they changed format to a smaller perfect-bound booklet with more pages, and pivoted to an apparent focus on major-label bands (or at least major-minor stuff like Cali-Gari and Onmyouza) and gay culture.

As for the issue itself, apart from the bands listed on the cover there's:
- Page 19: A small promo for Atsushi Fukuyama's short-lived band "Recall"
- Page 21: Detailed contents of Apres Guerre issues 16-30
- Page 36-37: An event where "Dada-chan's unit VELVET GARDEN" played Static on the line?

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre30.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/apresguerre30_150dpi.pdf


Gilbert and Sullivan Journal for Summer 1973:

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_summer73.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_summer73_150dpi.pdf

Notable entries this time:
- Review of a German-language production of "Yeomen of the Guard"
- Notes on dance arrangements published for Savoy selections
- A revival of Sullivan and Burnand's "The Contrabandista" - it seems like around this time a lot of lost and/or minor productions were getting their first performances in decades or even since Queen Victoria's days.

 

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SWicH 28, Aug/Sep 1997

Changing tracks here, we're moving up to the pro circuit. "SWicH" was a magazine with institutional backing. It was distributed by Hara Gakki and seems to have been a full-time job for the people involved. The chinpira are left to moulder in their small-time venues, as this magazine seems to deal only in major bands that tour and release actual CDs. The production values are correspondingly higher - we have semi-glossy magazine paper that isn't transparent, making this very easy to scan.
As you can see, Malice Mizer in their "Bel Air" getups are the cover feature - we have a live report with photos from the "Pays de merveilles" tour, plus a group interview and "24 Questions" profiles for each member.
Other bands are as listed on the cover - "Blue" has the ex-vocalist of oxbxjxe/C'est La vie and Moi dix Mois' future drummer Hayato.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/swich28.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/swich28_150dpi.pdf


Gilbert and Sullivan Journal for Autumn 1973:

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_autumn73.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_autumn73_150dpi.pdf

Most of the coverage this time is on Beaufort Opera's revival of Sullivan's "Ivanhoe". They call it a "historic, if unfortunate, opera" which seems to have been (and still be) the general consensus. Musically and dramatically it was a flop, and unlike in Victoria's day there was no extravagant staging to paper over its deficiencies. Being loosely based on a novel that was thoroughly outmoded even in the '70s, let alone today, surely couldn't have helped matters.
I haven't actually watched or heard "Ivanhoe" myself (or read the book) so I can't comment on their commentary.

 

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SWicH 24, Feb. 1997
As featured on the cover, this has an interview with Gackt and Kami, from the end of the Voyage era. Other bands as shown - lots of photogrpahic reportage and setlists if anyone cares.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/swich24.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/swich24_150dpi.pdf




The JUBILEE ISSUE of G&SJ celebrates the 50th anniverary of the Gilbert and Sullivan Society's founding (making this spring right now the 100th anniversary). This year is also the 50th anniversary of the New York Gilbert and Sullivan Players, who performed "Trial by Jury" and "The Sorcerer" this afternoon.

Highlights this time:
- A pointer to a scholarly article in the American Bar Association Journal on "Gilbert and Sullivan on Corporate Law" (available on JSTOR) which deals with the satirical treatments of limited-liability corporations in "Utopia Limited" and elsewhere.
- A parody of "Ruddigore" called "Ruddy George", which apparently was produced in 1887. Gilbert himself was in attendance and reportedly was unimpressed.
- An unusual production of "Trial by Jury" at Sadler's Wells
- A concert performance at the Sydney Opera House, which was newly completed and not even officially opened by the Queen yet
- A continuation of the scathing "Ivanhoe" review from last issue
- Confirmation that the switch from numbering the issues January/May/September to Spring/Summer/Autumn was because of whiners complaining about late issues XD

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_spring74.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_spring74_150dpi.pdf

 

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SWicH 20, Oct. 1996
This issue has a fair amount of interesting material in it: live reportage on Malice Mizer ("Sans retour Voyage deux" tour), Lareine ("QUEEN OF OPERA DANCE" tour), and La:Sadie's. There are Q&A profiles of Lareine's Machi and La:Sadies' Kyo.
AND there are profiles of fans, if you're curious who actually went to these shows. Most everyone gives their first name and age, but the Malice Mizer cosplayers give fanciful identities
Mana Cosplayer: "Chisato Sapphiette de Arikawa" From Versailles; age: secret
Gackt Cosplayer: "Kaie de la Tsugarford" From Paris; age: 57
Yu~ki Cosplayer: "Yukiwo B. Christopher Narita" From Transylvania; age: 210
Kami Cosplayer: "Zurakami Rakkyou" From Spain.
Kozi Cosplayer: "Közu" From Portugal.

The Mana cosplayer took the grand prize and revealed her real identity as Chisato Arikawa, from Saitama, age 25 XD

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/swich20.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/swich20_150dpi.pdf

And in G&SJ, I reached the end of my 1970s run, with the Summer '74 issue.

https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_summer74.pdf
https://www.prideofmind.com/data/gsj_summer74_150dpi.pdf

Highlights:
- A report on the Golden Jubilee festivities for the society's 50th anniversary - including mention of multiple specialty ties being worn in addition to the Society Tie
- Remarks on childhood memories of Gilbert and the Savoy, from his great-niece Audrey Parker
- Another attempt at reconstituting the lost opera "Thespis", by an American conductor, Eugene Minor
- An invitation to another golden jubilee dinner at the Savoy on 9/21/1974. "The price of the tickets, at £5.50 each, is modest for banqueting these days." Also, let it be known that "as regards dress the Committee strongly hopes that gentlemen will wear a dinner jacket or dark suit". You hear that, you bums?

My collection ends here, but I understand that Volume X continued for a full 20 issues, up to 1981. SO: next we'll be going back in time to 1935!