In Message Thu, 26 Jan 1995 17:52:09 -0800,
"Alfandary, Francine" <francine@lawmail.law.columbia.edu> writes:
>
> Learned Hand was also a big Gilbert & Sullivan fan. Is this a mark
> of judicial temperament?
>
One of our own assistant professors here at the Florida State
University College of Law was the conductor of the production of "Iolanthe"
staged by the Victorian Lyric Opera in Washington, DC which Chief Justice
Rehnquist saw last June! (Some of us have interests other than the law,
ya know.)
He tells me that there have been many comments about the Chief's New
Robes on SavoyNet, the mailing list for G&S fans.
In regard to Francine's comment about G&S and judicial temperment, I
seem to remember that one of them, either Gilbert or Sullivan, had studied,
maybe even practised, law before going into the operetta business. There
certainly are not a few courtroom spoofs in their works, even an entire
(one-act) operetta, "Trial by Jury."
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