
April 21, 1899 · 127 years old

A salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.

The son of the Mikado of Japan, a wandering minstrel, falls for a girl who is engaged to her guardian.

A cop quits the force after too much disappointment in the system and becomes bodyguard to a rich recent widow on trial for her husband's murder. He decides to help her clear her name--and get over her husband.

The Victorian-era theatrical partnership of English librettist William S. Gilbert and English composer Arthur Sullivan produced fourteen comic operas to great public acclaim, yet they clashed on both personal and creative levels.