"production of Gilbert and Sullivan's ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" to raise funds to get it unstuck. Much of the musical consists of a play within a play, as the company presents a musically updated version of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera; the boat pilot (played by Bill Robinson in the original production) takes a major role as Sir Joseph Porter, First Lord of the Admiralty. Another actor (Avon Long in the original) sings and dances the role of Captain Corcoran, while the part of Josephine goes to an Andrews Sisters-style trio of women from the company chorus (Sheila Guyse, Ida James, and"
"H.M.S. Pinafore H.M.S. Pinafore; or, The Lass That Loved a Sailor is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and a libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It opened at the Opera Comique in London, on 25 May 1878 and ran for 571 performances, which was the second-longest run of any musical theatre piece up to that time. ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" was Gilbert and Sullivan's fourth operatic collaboration and their first international sensation. The story takes place aboard the ship HMS ""Pinafore"". The captain's daughter, Josephine, is in love with a lower-class sailor, Ralph Rackstraw, although her father"
"the Captain, and the Captain should have been Ralph. He summons both, and they emerge wearing each other's uniforms: Ralph as Captain, in command of the ""Pinafore"", and Corcoran as a common sailor. Sir Joseph's marriage with Josephine is now ""out of the question"" in his eyes: ""love levels all ranks ... to a considerable extent, but it does not level them as much as that."" He hands her to Captain Rackstraw. The former Captain's now-humble social rank leaves him free to marry Buttercup. Sir Joseph settles for his cousin Hebe, and all ends in general rejoicing. ""See discussion of"
"1800 and 1912 included"": From 1 April 1964 Elizabeth II assumed the title of Lord High Admiral. Ministerial responsibility for the Royal Navy was transferred to the newly created Secretary of State for Defence. The ""Radical"" First Lord, and a major character, in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" (1878), is Sir Joseph Henry Porter, KCB. W. S. Gilbert wrote to Arthur Sullivan he did not intend to portray the real-life then First Lord, the bookseller and newsagent W. H. Smith, a Conservative, although some of the public, including Prime Minister Disraeli (who later referred to Smith as ""Pinafore"
"a Betazoid woman who is on board to sell items to the crew, hints that she knows a secret from Ralph's past. The Captain consults his daughter Josephine and reminds her that she has the opportunity to marry Sir Joseph Porter, who is First Lord of the Starfleet Admiralty and a wealthy Ferengi. Sir Joseph arrives with his entourage of 'relatives' (Cousin Hebe and a variety of aliens) and impresses all with his exalted position. Ralph, dejected, informs his friends that he plans to end it all. In a dramatic moment, Josephine declares her love for him and they agree"
"in that whole jingoism that is the British Empire."" In addition, he argued that the song ties this theme into the main satire of class distinctions in the opera: """"H.M.S. Pinafore"" is basically a satire on ... the British love of the class system. ... [O]f course [Ralph] can marry [the Captain's] daughter, because he's British, and therefore he's great'"". Jacobs notes that Gilbert is lampooning the tradition of nautical melodrama in which the sailor's ""patriotism guarantees his virtue"". One of Gilbert's favourite comic themes is the elevation of an unqualified person to a position of high responsibility. In ""The"
"in the 2006 pantomime ""Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"" as the henchman at Manchester Opera House, appearing alongside Suranne Jones, Justin Moorhouse, and the all-star seven dwarves including Warwick Davis. In 2007 he was touring as the lead in a production of ""Hobson's Choice"". He appeared on ""Loose Women"" on 19 March 2009 to discuss his part as Sir Joseph Porter in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta ""HMS Pinafore"", which toured the United Kingdom during the spring and summer of 2009. He guest starred in the Christmas special episode of ""Holby City"" in 2012, playing patient Rupert Pool. He"
"the intertwined fates of two families, the Beauforts and Maleforts. Beaufort Senior is the governor of Marseilles in France; his son, Beaufort Junior, is in love with, and beloved by, Theocrine, the daughter of Malefort Senior, the admiral of Marseilles. The admiral's son and Theocrine's half-brother, Malefort Junior, is a successful and notorious pirate; at the start of the play his pirate fleet is blockading the harbor of the city, and his father the admiral is suspected of collusion with the son's actions. This situation is delineated in the play's opening scene, which proceeds to the admiral's trial before the"
"the relevance of a liberal education. The story also revisits ""Pinafore""s theme of unqualified people in positions of authority, in the person of the ""modern Major-General"" who has up-to-date knowledge about everything except the military. The Major-General and his many daughters escape from the tender-hearted Pirates of Penzance, who are all orphans, on the false plea that he is an orphan himself. The pirates learn of the deception and re-capture the Major-General, but when it is revealed that the pirates are all peers, the Major-General bids them: ""resume your ranks and legislative duties, and take my daughters, all of whom"
"""gallant crew"" and compliments them on their politeness, saying that he returns the favour by never (""well, hardly ever"") using bad language, such as ""a big, big D"". After the sailors leave, the Captain confesses to Little Buttercup that Josephine is reluctant to consider a marriage proposal from Sir Joseph Porter, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Buttercup says that she knows how it feels to love in vain. As she leaves, the Captain remarks that she is ""a plump and pleasing person"". Josephine enters and reveals to her father that she loves a humble sailor in his crew, but"
"His mother took him to America, where she was performing, but he returned to England at age 20. Finding that he could not make a living as a painter, he gained some success as a drawing-room entertainer, eventually moving into acting. He first appeared on the stage at St. George's Hall, London, in the German Reed Entertainments and then turned to light opera, joining Richard D'Oyly Carte's Comedy Opera Company in 1879 to appear as Sir Joseph Porter in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" on tour. He continued to play the Gilbert and Sullivan comic ""patter"" roles on tour in Britain until 1881."
"and another called ""Thinking Young"" and the final single called ""Father, Dear Father."" None of these recordings were commercially successful. Cargill appeared as Sir Joseph Porter in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in August 1983. From the mid-1960s Cargill lived at Sheen Gate Gardens near Richmond, Surrey. He spent his time 'resting' at Spring Cottage, his country retreat situated in Warren Lane, near Cross-in-Hand, East Sussex. For many years Cargill's companion was Vernon Page, an eccentric landscape gardener, poet and lampoon songwriter, until he married in 1984 with Cargill's blessing. Cargill was a private man, who did not"
"fun of things"" rather than any ""political proclivities"". The characters are largely similar to those of ""HMS Pinafore"": Captain Corcoran is rewritten as Captain McA (John A. Macdonald); Dick Deadeye becomes Alexander MacDeadeye (Alexander Mackenzie, Canada's second prime minister); Sir Joseph Porter is renamed Sir Samuel Sillery (Sir Samuel Leonard Tilley, finance minister); and the couple Josephine and Ralph are presented as Angelina and Sam Snifter. The new libretto too is loosely based on the original: for example, where ""Pinafore"" opens ""We sail the ocean blue / and our saucy ship's a beauty"", ""Parliament"" begins ""We sail the ship of"
"qualifications. Gilbert also pokes fun at party politics, implying that when Sir Joseph ""always voted at [his] party's call"", he sacrificed his personal integrity. The ""commercial middle class"" (which was Gilbert's main audience) is treated as satirically as are social climbers and the great unwashed. In addition, the apparent age difference between Ralph and the Captain, even though they were babies nursed together, satirises the variable age of Thaddeus in ""The Bohemian Girl"". ""The Times"" wrote, in reviewing the 1929 production, that ""Pinafore"" was quintessentially Gilbertian in that the absurdities of a ""paternal"" Captain and the ""ethics ... of all"
"was a ""great pleasure"" to hear the returning principals. A 1961 review of the company's ""Pinafore"" is much the same. In 1879, J. C. Williamson acquired the exclusive performing rights to ""Pinafore"" in Australia and New Zealand. His first production earned public and critical acclaim. Williamson played Sir Joseph, and his wife, Maggie Moore played Josephine. Praising the production and all the performers, the ""Sydney Morning Herald"" noted that the production though ""abounding in fun"" was dignified and precise, that many numbers were encored and that laughter and applause from the ""immense audience ... was liberally bestowed"". Williamson's company continued"
"all nine of the lead comic baritone roles in Gilbert and Sullivan's famous Savoy Operas in London from 1877 to 1889, including the pompous First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Joseph Porter, in ""H.M.S. Pinafore"" (1878); Major-General Stanley in ""The Pirates of Penzance"", who is an expert at everything except ""military knowledge"" (1880); the aesthetic poet, Reginald Bunthorne in ""Patience"" (1881); the love-lonely Lord Chancellor in ""Iolanthe"" (1882); the sarcastic cripple, King Gama, in ""Princess Ida"" (1884); Ko-Ko the cheap tailor, elevated to the post of Lord High Executioner, in ""The Mikado"" (1885); the accursed Robin Oakapple in ""Ruddigore"" (1887);"
"a busy port at this time and Joseph serves his time on board a sea trading vessel. In time Joseph earns his master certificate and the family agree to build their own ship and name it the “Janet Coombe” which Joseph then captains. Tragedy strikes when Janet, who has a weak heart, passes away on the day of the ship launch. The book transitions to Joseph, who spends most of his time at sea, and later, marries Susan Collins. His ambition for his youngest son, Christopher, is for him to follow in his footsteps. These plans are thwarted when Christopher"
"Board meetings, chaired and controlled by Melmotte, Fisker's partner, Paul Montague, raises difficult questions. Paul's personal life is also complicated. He falls in love with Lady Carbury's young and beautiful daughter Hetta—much to her mother's displeasure—but has been followed to England by a former American fiancée, Mrs Winifred Hurtle. Mrs Hurtle is determined to make Paul marry her based on the fact that they had lived together in America, and that she offered him ""all that a woman can give"". It is Lady Carbury's plan, advised by her literary friend Mr Broune, a distinguished London publisher, for Hetta to marry"
"George Porter (mariner) George Porter (1786-1872) was a mariner and early pioneer of South Australia. Porter was born in 1786 in Queenborough, England. In 1809, he married Elizabeth Bassett, with whom he had eleven children. She was the daughter of a Kentish dredger, Henry Bassett, operating in the badly silted estuaries of the Swale and Medway. Porter was a senior sea captain in the employ of the British East India Company, working mainly as a whaler. The deteriorating economic conditions in Queenborough and his positive experiences in the western Pacific seem to have led to the family’s decision to emigrate"
"boat, expecting George to drag him to safety. George refuses, however, as it would spoil things with Mary, and makes Mifflin to pretend to be the rescuer. Mary's suspicions are aroused by the repeat rescuing, and recalls having seen George before, swimming strongly at another resort. She is furious with him, but Mifflin explains George's initial gallantry and reluctance to repeat the act, and all is forgiven. Later, with George's play a success in London, he is accompanied into his box by a lady... Arthur Welch is a barber at the Hotel Belvoir. He is engaged to Maud Peters, who"
"Sir John has arranged for Bellafront to be married to rich Count Frederick that very day. Frederick's friend, Captain Powts, hoped to marry Sir John's second daughter Kate, but she is going to be wed to the rich young merchant Strange – Sir John favours him because of his wealth. Sir John's third daughter Lucida is in love with Count Frederick and vows she will marry no one else. The newly knighted and foolish Sir Abraham Ninny – son of Sir Innocent Ninny and his constantly-inebriated wife Lady Ninny – tries to win Lucida's love through terrible poetry ... and"
"and misguided member of the ruling class who, hypocritically, cannot apply the idea of equality to himself. The hero, Ralph, is convinced of his equality by Sir Joseph's foolish pronouncements and declares his love for his Captain's daughter, throwing over the accepted ""fabric of social order"". At this point, Crowther suggests, the logic of Gilbert's satiric argument should result in Ralph's arrest. But to satisfy convention, Gilbert creates an obvious absurdity: the captain and Ralph were switched as babies. By an ""accident of birth"", Ralph is suddenly an appropriate husband for Josephine, and both the social order and the desire"
"some of his superiors, leading to conflict. Except for intervention by Commodore James Biddle, who acted favorably because Porter's father was a hero, his warrant as a midshipman would not have been renewed. Porter's last duty as a midshipman was on the frigate , flagship of Commodore Daniel Patterson, from June 1832 until October 1834. Patterson's family accompanied him, including his daughter, George Ann (""Georgy""). The two young people renewed their acquaintance and became engaged. After Porter returned home, he completed the examination for passed midshipman, and soon after was assigned to duty in the Coast Survey. There, his pay"
"could easily have been procured, and George's adventures with the spy were a remarkable coincidence. George realises that Elizabeth is actually Lord Roland's sister. He proposes to her. His uncle will be delighted he is marrying into the aristocracy, and Elizabeth's parents, with five daughters, will be delighted that she is marrying into money. She accepts. Sir Edward Palliser, KC, receives a visit in his Westminster house from a woman called Magdalen Vaughan whom he met on a boat trip some ten years previously. She begs him for help, as she is the great-niece of Lily Crabtree, an old woman"
"expresses his devotion to her in a poetic and moving speech that ends with ""I am a British sailor, and I love you"". It finally turns out that he is of a higher rank than she. This is a parody of the Victorian ""equality"" drama, such as Lord Lytton's ""The Lady of Lyons"" (1838), where the heroine rejects a virtuous peasant who makes a similarly moving speech, ending with ""I am a peasant!"" It then turns out that he has become her social superior. Furthermore, in ""Pinafore"", Sir Joseph assures Josephine that ""love levels all ranks"". In Tom Taylor's ""The"
"mother sent him there is that his father—whom Carl has never met—is someone on the ship, with Quentin being the likeliest suspect. DJ ""Simple"" Simon Swafford marries Elenore in an onboard ceremony, but soon learns that she only married him as a means to live on the ship and be with Gavin, with whom she is infatuated but refuses to marry her (or anyone). The Count challenges Gavin to a game of chicken in defence of Simon's honour: The two climb one of the ship's radio masts in a clash of egos, reconciling after they are both injured by jumping"
"was bluff. His fortune has been badly affected in the slump. Parker Pyne is about to start a journey on a Nile steamer. The only other passengers on the vessel are Sir George and Lady Grayle, her niece Pamela, her nurse, Elsie MacNaughton and Sir George's young secretary, Basil West. Sir George married Lady Grayle to try to find a way out of his financial difficulties but the price he has paid is in having a difficult, bad-tempered, hypochondriac for a wife. Lady Grayle is annoyed that Pyne is on the boat, having been assured that her party would be"
"the disconsolate natives. In the midst of this catastrophe, Sergeant Odd returns on leave to court Peggy, the daughter of the local shopkeeper Joseph Macroon. Meanwhile, Macroon's other daughter, Catriona, has just become engaged to a meek schoolteacher, George Campbell, although his stern, domineering mother refuses to give her approval. During a storm, the freighter S.S. ""Cabinet Minister"" runs aground near Todday in heavy fog late one night and begins to sink. Two local inhabitants, the Biffer and Sammy MacCodrun, row out to investigate and learn from its departing crew that the cargo consists of 50,000 cases of whisky. Captain"
"the famed green berets worn by Special Forces. The daughter of General Porky Waterford, Barbara is the classic officer's wife, assisting with the families of her husband's command. She is amused by some of the junior officers and often reminds her husband to relax a little with them. Other characters in the series describe her as ""the perfect officer's wife."" She has two children, Marjorie (who eventually marries Jacques Portet) and Robert, a West Pointer and army aviator qualified in rotary and fixed wing aircraft. She is tremendously fond of Craig Lowell and treats him as a little brother, including"
"that George meets Diana Pym, who gives him a lift back to his house, Thalassa, where he discovers that she was the former singer, Julie Midnight. When down by the harbour, George is approached by a St Cadix resident and informed about a boat, the ""Calliope"", that is for sale – it belongs to a Wing Commander and his wife who are in financially strained circumstances and they need to sell it. He reflects back on a time in Bom Porto when he was given some money by the President for previously attending a Pan-African shipping convention whilst a Portuguese"
"a woman, who might be a suitable match for ""some hard-bred citizen, crafty lawyer, or country justice,"" is inappropriate for a ""tender nurseling of the Court"" like his cousin. Sir Philip, however, is determined to pursue the match. The two men are interrupted by Mrs. Fitchow's brother Widgine and his companion and self-styled tutor Captain Anvil. Widgine quickly reveals himself to be a fool, while Anvil is a poseur and opportunist eager to exploit him. Sir Philip is also approached by an unknown gentlewoman called Mistress Trainwell, who speaks to him about a promise of marriage and presents him with"
"(C.M.G.) in 1884. He held the office of Member of Parliament (M.P.) (Conservative) for Liverpool, Kirkdale Division between 1885 and 1898.1 He was appointed Knight Commander, Order of St. Michael and St. George (K.C.M.G.) in 1888. On 8 April 1893 in Cheltenham George married Frances Annie Wilson, the daughter of a wealthy Australian land-owner. They had a daughter, Maud Kirkdale Baden-Powell (27 July 1895 - 6 Dec 1981), and a son, Donald Ferlys Wilson Baden-Powell (1897–1973). Frances died aged 50 in Cheltenham on 29 Oct 1913. In 1896 he took his yacht ""Otaria"" to the island of Novaya Zemlya in"
"and is jailed. Jo then accepts John's proposal. Spiggins tries to sabotage the wedding by getting drunk and hiding out on Tony's sailboat, the ""Vagabond Lady"", figuring if he is not there to give his daughter away, they cannot proceed. Jo tracks him down and assumes (as Spiggins had plotted) that it is Tony who is trying to derail the ceremony. Despite their mutual hostility toward each other, Tony offers to sail her to the wedding in Westport, giving them enough time to get her father sober. On the way, Tony tells Corky to throw him overboard if he so"