ABSTRACT
The weekly Hornet had been permitted a peep inside 8 Albert Mansions, Victoria Street: Visitors to the studio of Mr Arthur Sullivan have been struck by the sight of a very primitive ornament over the mantelpiece, elevated to the highest place of honour. He was to undertake two theatrical collaborations with Gilbert which, unlike Trial by Jury, were to be of full length. Sullivan assumed immediately the position of breadwinner. Born 31 May 1868, in age between Edith and Maude, Herbert henceforth lived as Arthur Sullivan’s son, though not formally adopted. By the standards of the social class into which Arthur Sullivan had raised himself, his nine-year-old nephew was ready to be sent to boarding-school. Sullivan was also received by the Prince of Wales. Sullivan’s new commitment to the National Training School for Music took much time. The score as a whole displays, if not in fully developed form, Sullivan’s basic operatic ‘armoury’.
