SMAD. An Organ of Student Opinion. 1936. Volume 7. Number 8.
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We were determined to enjoy this show so, for fear of comparisons, we stayed from the Gilbert and Sullivans. But we need not have done so, for there was no resemblance between them. G. & S. are frivously amusing-satire. The general aim of extravaganzas is ridicule, but few have succeeded in picking their meat to the bone as this one does.