During World War II, a group of Japanese soldiers stationed on Lagos Island in South Pacific were unintentionally saved by Godzillasaurus, which attacked and killed a group of American soldiers who had landed on the island in February 1944 as part of the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign.

Gilbert already had available the libretto he had written for Rosa, and Carte suggested that Sullivan write the score.

Before The Sorcerer, Gilbert had constructed his plays around the established stars of whatever theatre he happened to be writing for, as had been the case with Thespis and Trial by Jury.

Building on the team he had assembled for The Sorcerer, Gilbert no longer hired stars ; he created them.

Gilbert had created several " fairy comedies " at the Haymarket Theatre in the early 1870s.

In 1882, Gilbert had a telephone installed in his home and at the prompt desk at the Savoy Theatre so that he could monitor performances and rehearsals from his home study.

Gilbert had referred to the new technology in Pinafore in 1878, only two years after the device was invented and before London even had telephone service.

Although it was the operas with Gilbert that had earned him the broadest fame, the honour was conferred for his services to serious music.

But paradoxically, in February 1883, just after Iolanthe opened, Sullivan had signed a five-year agreement with Gilbert and Carte requiring him to produce a new comic opera on six months ' notice.

Gilbert had written a blank verse farce based on the same material in 1870, called The Princess, and he reused a good deal of the dialogue from his earlier play in the libretto of Princess Ida.

Lillian Russell had been engaged to create the title role, but Gilbert did not believe that she was dedicated enough, and when she missed a rehearsal, she was dismissed.

Sullivan had been satisfied with the libretto, but two months after Ida opened, Sullivan told Carte that " it is impossible for me to do another piece of the character of those already written by Gilbert and myself.

" G. K. Chesterton compared it to Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels: " Gilbert pursued and persecuted the evils of modern England till they had literally not a leg to stand on, exactly as Swift did ...

In one tour match, Gilbert had bloodied Jardine and left a bruise the size of a saucer.

Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.

Even more sign of Edward's distrust occurred when on 10 October 1305, Edward revoked his gift of Gilbert de Umfraville's lands to Bruce that he had made only six months before.

Gilbert consented and offered to write the book ; but Sondheim declined, having already had collaborator John Weidman in mind.

They included Robert's uncle, Robert the archbishop of Rouen, who had originally opposed the duke, Osbern, a nephew of Gunnor the wife of Duke Richard I, and Count Gilbert of Brionne, a grandson of Richard I.

At first, Alan of Brittany had custody of the duke, but when Alan died in either late 1039 or October 1040, Gilbert of Brionne took charge of William.

In 2006, he had a prominent role in the remake of The Pink Panther and its sequel, playing Gilbert Ponton, the partner of Inspector Clouseau opposite Steve Martin, and also portrayed Captain Bezu Fache in the Ron Howard film The Da Vinci Code.

Victorian era dramatist W. S. Gilbert remarked, " Deer-stalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns ".

His good friend Gilbert R. Cook was Deputy Commander, whom Patton later had to relieve due to illness, a decision which " shook him to the core.

Carte knew that Gilbert had worked with Sullivan to create Thespis in 1871, and he now suggested that Sullivan could write the music for Trial by Jury.

The idea was suggested to Hicks by W. S. Gilbert.

In October 1941, then-mayor Gilbert Gable, frustrated with the poor condition of the state roads around Port Orford, which hampered economic development, suggested that a number of counties along the Oregon and California state border should secede and create the State of Jefferson.

It has also been suggested that the name may be a twist on ' Gilbert Gosseyn ', a character in The World of Null-A by A. E. van Vogt.

To say nothing of minor opponents, such as " Philaretus " ( Gilbert Burnet, already alluded to ), Dr John Balguy ( 1686 – 1748 ), prebendary of Salisbury, the author of two tracts on " The Foundation of Moral Goodness ", and Dr John Taylor ( 1694 – 1761 ) of Norwich, a minister of considerable reputation in his time ( author of An Examination of the Scheme of Amorality advanced by Dr Hutcheson ), the essays appear to have suggested, by antagonism, at least two works that hold a permanent place in the literature of English ethics — Butler's Dissertation on the Nature of Virtue, and Richard Price's Treatise of Moral Good and Evil ( 1757 ).

It was suggested that Mayer deliberately gave Gilbert bad scripts and ineffective directors in an effort to void the contract.

However, writing in his Recollections, Gilbert Scott suggested his own design was original: My idea in designing the Memorial was to erect a kind of ciborium to protect a statue of the Prince ; and its special characteristic was that the ciborium was designed in some degree on the principles of the ancient shrines.

Its use was suggested in 1902 by Paris physician Gilbert Sersiron as a symbol for the " crusade " against tuberculosis.

A little known fact is that Warwick Gilbert ( ex-Radio Birdman ) sat in on bass for these sessions because the band ’ s actual bass player, Dave Guest, didn ’ t feel confident enough in his playing and suggested that they find someone more capable to record with.

" Gilbert suggested an opera based on a theatrical company, which Sullivan rejected ( though a version of it would be resurrected in 1896 as The Grand Duke ), but he accepted an idea " connected with Venice and Venetian life, and this seemed to me to hold out great chances of bright colour and taking music.

LSD overdose was suggested as a possible cause of the January 2, 1962 deaths of CSIRO scientists Dr Gilbert Bogle and his lover Dr Margaret Chandler, but this is very unlikely as there are no known cases of LSD fatal overdose and other more likely causes of death have been suggested.

After discussion with another friend, Wes Prichard, Prichard suggested to Wennberg that Gates and Allen head over UW Physics building to where Gilbert, another EE student worked in the high-energy tracking lab.

Gilbert suggested that she " underlet " Foggerty's Fairy to him, and he eventually had it produced.

It was at the conference held at Windsor that Clarendon was said to have suggested the confinement of King James to the Tower ; while, according to Gilbert Burnet he proposed his relegation to Breda.

* 1861 – First performance of Arthur Sullivan's debut success, his suite of incidental music for The Tempest, leading to a career that included the famous Gilbert and Sullivan operas.

In 1919, Harold Abrahams ( Ben Cross ) enters the University of Cambridge, where he experiences anti-Semitism from the staff, but enjoys participating in the Gilbert and Sullivan club.

Although focused on his running, he falls in love with a leading Gilbert and Sullivan soprano, Sybil ( Alice Krige ).

* 1946 – Gilbert O ' Sullivan, Irish singer

* 1871 – Gilbert and Sullivan collaborate for the first time, on their lost opera, Thespis.

In 1960, Groucho, a lifelong devotee of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, appeared as Koko the Lord High Executioner in a televised production of The Mikado on NBC's Bell Telephone Hour.

Category: People associated with Gilbert and Sullivan

Gilbert and Sullivan refers to the Victorian-era theatrical partnership of the librettist W. S. Gilbert ( 1836 – 1911 ) and the composer Arthur Sullivan ( 1842 – 1900 ).

Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century.

Producer Richard D ' Oyly Carte brought Gilbert and Sullivan together and nurtured their collaboration.

Ages Ago, during the rehearsals for which Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to Sullivan

At a rehearsal for one of these entertainments, Ages Ago ( 1869 ), the composer Frederic Clay introduced Gilbert to his friend, the young composer Arthur Sullivan.

Two years later, Gilbert and Sullivan would write their first work together.

In 1871, producer John Hollingshead brought Gilbert and Sullivan together to produce a Christmas entertainment, Thespis, at his Gaiety Theatre, a large West End house.

Unlike the later Gilbert and Sullivan works, it was hastily prepared, and its nature was more risqué, like Gilbert's earlier burlesques, with a broader style of comedy that allowed for improvisation by the actors.

Over the next four years, Gilbert and Sullivan did not have occasion to work together again, but each man became more eminent in his field.

After the success of Trial by Jury, Gilbert and Sullivan were suddenly in demand to write more operas together.

Carte proposed a revival of Thespis for the 1875 Christmas season, which Gilbert and Sullivan would have revised, but he was unable to obtain financing for the project.

In early 1876, Carte requested that Gilbert and Sullivan create another one-act opera on the theme of burglars, but this was never completed.

He assembled a syndicate and formed the Comedy Opera Company, with Gilbert and Sullivan commissioned to write a comic opera that would serve as the centrepiece for an evening's entertainment.

Gilbert and Sullivan were tireless taskmasters, seeing to it that The Sorcerer opened as a fully polished production, in marked contrast to the under-rehearsed Thespis.