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April 10, 2024

Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson OBE (8 March 1886 – 29 August 1953), known as Darrell Fancourt, was an English bass-baritone and actor, known for his performances and recordings of the Savoy operas.

Fancourt as The Mikado of Japan

After a brief concert career, Fancourt joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, where he starred in more than 10,000 performances over a 33-year period until his death. He regularly played about ten different roles for the company over these years, including the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Dick Deadeye in H.M.S. Pinafore, and the title character in The Mikado, which he played more than 3,000 times. Fancourt was famous for his melodramatic style, creating the controversial Mikado laugh that was later adopted by some of his successors. His performances are preserved in nineteen of the company's recordings made between 1923 and 1950.

Early years edit

Fancourt was born Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson, the younger son of three children of a Jewish family in Kensington, London.[1] His father, Louis George Leverson (1860–1909),[2] was a diamond merchant who had made a fortune in South Africa.[3] His mother, Amelia (Amy) de Symons, née Lewis-Barned (1865–1931),[4] was "a clever vivacious young artist of the musical comedy type".[3] Both were staunch friends of the arts.[3] His father's sister married Brandon Thomas.[5] Fancourt was baptised into the Church of England when he was fourteen years old.[6]

Fancourt was educated at Bedford School and with a private tutor in Germany. He continued his vocal studies in Germany with Lilli Lehmann.[7] Upon his return to England, he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.[5][8] At the Royal Academy, he studied singing with his mother's former teacher, Sir Henry Wood,[3] and Alberto Randegger,[9] and drama with Richard Temple, creator of many of the Savoy roles in which Fancourt was later famous.[10] While a student, Fancourt performed in opera productions at the Academy, creating the role of Tackleton, the toy merchant, in Alexander Mackenzie's opera The Cricket on the Hearth,[11] and playing Colas in Mozart's Bastien und Bastienne, and Benoit in La bohème. The Times thought him "amusing but not noticeably musical" in the last.[12]

 
Fancourt as Lord Mountararat in Iolanthe

Even before completing his studies, Fancourt was building a concert career in London, the British provinces and the European continent.[11][13] The Times said of an Aeolian Hall recital in 1912, "Mr. Fancourt has some noble notes in his voice, except when he forces it occasionally ... Schubert's Tod und das Mädchen was remarkably well characterized; it was quite his best and he made it into a thing of great beauty."[14] In World War I, Fancourt volunteered for military service and was commissioned in the London Regiment as a lieutenant.[15] In 1917, while still serving in the army, Fancourt married a beautiful Welsh singer, Eleanor Evans, at St Mark's Church, Hamilton Terrace, London.[16] She had been a fellow student at the Royal Academy.[17] After returning to civilian life in 1919, Fancourt sang in a single performance of Prince Igor in Sir Thomas Beecham's opera season at Covent Garden as Prince Galitsky under the baton of Albert Coates.[18] This was his only professional appearance in a grand opera, and his only paid acting experience up to that point.[8] In the same year, he appeared as a soloist at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and in oratorio elsewhere in London.[19][20]

Fancourt joined the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in May 1920 to succeed Frederick Hobbs, who had announced his decision to leave the company.[21] Fancourt went on for Hobbs as Mountararat in Iolanthe, Arac in Princess Ida and the title character in The Mikado. In June 1920, Hobbs left, and Fancourt took over the bass-baritone roles, including the above parts, Dick Deadeye in H.M.S. Pinafore, the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance, Colonel Calverley in Patience, Sir Roderic Murgatroyd in Ruddigore and Sergeant Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard.[22] In 1921, when Cox and Box and The Sorcerer were revived, Fancourt added the roles of Sergeant Bouncer and Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre to his repertoire.[23] He also appeared as the Usher in Trial by Jury in 1926,[24] but he thought himself "simply bloody" in the role and soon dropped it.[25] In 1921, his wife, Eleanor Evans, joined the company as a chorister, also playing some smaller principal soprano roles. She was nicknamed "Snookie" in the company; and, according to fellow D'Oyly Carte performer Derek Oldham, "she was so beautiful, was Snookie! We all fell for her, and we gave Darrell a busy time keeping us 'off'."[26] Later in Fancourt's career, his wife was made the company's stage director and director of productions.[27]

Later years edit

Fancourt continued to play most of the principal bass-baritone roles for D'Oyly Carte until 1953. The company performed almost year-round in repertory during these 33 years, and Fancourt appeared in well over 10,000 performances; he played the title role in The Mikado more than 3,000 times.[28][29] Over the years, he performed with the company on seven tours in North America.[30] Known for his excellent diction and vocal technique, Fancourt was an audience favourite during his long tenure.[31] "Not only does he possess a velvety resonant bass tone but also has a relaxed vibrato that is particularly elegant."[32] J. C. Trewin called Fancourt "the lord of Gilbert-and-Sullivan playing. ... Fancourt is both a fine singer and, within the Savoy convention, a fine and zestful actor with the gift of a dominating personality. Roderic's song 'When the night wind howls', as Fancourt sings it in the second act of Ruddigore, is at the meridian of that opera and one of the glories of Gilbert-and-Sullivan in the contemporary theatre."[33]The Times later said, "nobody who heard it will ever forget his singing of 'When the night wind howls'."[8]

 
Fancourt as Sergeant Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard

Opinions differed about Fancourt's melodramatic style in his roles, especially his interpretation of his best-known role, that of the Mikado of Japan, and his famous Mikado laugh.[21] Frederic Lloyd, who joined the D'Oyly Carte in 1951 and had studied the company's history, told an interviewer that Fancourt invented his interpretation, concerned that the earlier movements used during the Mikado's song could be taken as a Fagin-like caricature. According to Lloyd, Fancourt had said that, because of his Jewish background, "I just couldn't go through those movements, it would bother me", and Lloyd reported that, when Fancourt showed Rupert D'Oyly Carte and his stage director J. M. Gordon his new business for the song, they were delighted.[21] Jessie Bond, who had played Pitti-Sing in the 1885 première, was unimpressed: "Who, I want to know, intended that the Mikado should prance about like a madman, hissing out his lines like a serpent? ... The raving monster we so often see now is not one bit like the suave and oily Mikado created [by Fancourt's teacher, Richard Temple] at the Savoy."[34]The Times thought that he "undoubtedly loses a good deal of the Mikado's humour... his 'humane Mikado' scene is the one which seems to have travelled farthest from the 'Savoy tradition'."[35] A later Times review commented more favourably: "Mr Darrell Fancourt... can (and did) add a terrifying aspect to the benignity of his humaner punishment manifesto, and left us wondering how his vocal cords ever managed to function normally after those expressions of emphasis with which he punctuated its paragraphs."[36] The Manchester Guardian praised Fancourt's fresh approach and added, "He makes more of the punishment-fitting-the-crime song than we can remember having seen from any other actor."[37] The Pall Mall Gazette said, "Mr Fancourt has recognised that people can do with a 'thrill' in these Grand Guignol days. So he has given us a Mikado who really does curdle the blood, with a voice like a steam hammer slowly crushing a ton of Brazil nuts, and a make up of ghastly villainy, and a fiendish, gurgling laugh, which must be heard to be appreciated."[38] Another critic described the sound of Fancourt's laugh as "a dragon getting up steam".[39] With respect to Fancourt's portrayal of the Pirate King, fellow actor Henry Lytton told an interviewer, "The King should be a story book pirate, not a real one and blood thirsty to boot. But that's the way Mr. Fancourt plays it".[21]

Fancourt was a cricket fan, an avid golfer and a fine bridge player and was popular among his colleagues.[8][31] By the late 1940s, his health began to fail, and in 1950 he gave up the role of Mountararat. In his last year, he continued to perform although he was very ill.[13] Fancourt received the OBE in June 1953 in the Coronation Honours shortly after announcing his forthcoming retirement.[40] The Illustrated London News commented, "He will be the greatest loss to professional Gilbert-and-Sullivan since Henry Lytton retired … Besides his voice and presence, he has the priceless gift of attack. To watch him attacking The Mikado is to watch high tide flooding across the beach: it is an irresistible surge and swell."[39] Fancourt was too ill to make his scheduled final appearance, and as a last gesture he asked a friend to take his make-up to his successor, Donald Adams.[38]

Fancourt died in August 1953 at the age of 67, 33 days after giving his last performance.[38]

Recordings edit

Fancourt participated in nineteen D'Oyly Carte recordings between 1923 and 1950 in the following roles: Mountararat (1922, shared with Peter Dawson, and 1930), Dick Deadeye (1922, shared with Frederick Hobbs, 1930 and 1949), Sir Roderic (1924, 1931 and 1950), Arac (1925 and 1932), Colonel Calverley (1930 and 1952), Sir Marmaduke in an abridged Sorcerer (1933), the Mikado (1926, 1936 and 1950), the Pirate King (1931 abridged set and 1950), and Sergeant Meryll (1950). He also sang the title role in a 1926 BBC radio broadcast of The Mikado and appeared in a four-minute silent promotional film made of the D'Oyly Carte Mikado in 1926.[13]

A photograph of Fancourt and D'Oyly Carte colleagues with the huge recording horn used in the acoustic recording process can be seen .

Notes edit

  1. ^ UK official records, including census returns, army lists, and birth, marriage and death certificates, confirm Fancourt's full name as Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson. The name is incorrectly given in an anecdote by Frederic Lloyd, the D'Oyly Carte general manager, who remembered it as David Levinson, and at the IMDB site and the Memories of the D'Oyly Carte site, which both give his birth-name as Darrell David Leverson.
  2. ^ 1891 census, PRO reference RG12/1015; England and Wales Death Index, 1837–1915, St Marylebone, Volume 1a, p. 288
  3. ^ a b c d Wood, p. 114.
  4. ^ The Morning Post, 26 May 1881, p. 8; 1891 census, PRO reference RG12/1015; and England and Wales Death Index, 1916–2005, Marylebone, Volume 1a, p. 496
  5. ^ a b Lejeune, C. A. "The High Noon of Darrell Fancourt" 14 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, July 1953, reprinted at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive, 28 August 2013
  6. ^ London, Births and Baptisms, 1813–1906, 16 January 1901, Parish of St John at Hampstead
  7. ^ Ayer, p. 85
  8. ^ a b c d Obituary, The Times, 31 August 1953, p. 15
  9. ^ "Darrell Fancourt", Naxos Records, accessed 10 September 2020
  10. ^ The Musical Times, Vol. 52, No. 815, 1 January 1911, p. 29
  11. ^ a b The Musical Times, Vol. 55, No. 857, 1 July 1914, pp. 459–60
  12. ^ The Times, 4 December 1913, p. 12
  13. ^ a b c Stone, David. Darrell Fancourt at Who Was Who in the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, 3 September 2003
  14. ^ The Times, 30 November 1912, p. 8
  15. ^ British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index, 1914–1920: Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson, accessed 25 July 2010 (subscription required)
  16. ^ London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754–1921, accessed 25 July 2010 (subscription required)
  17. ^ The Musical Times, July 1914, p. 469
  18. ^ The Times, 24 July 1919, p. 12
  19. ^ The Musical Times, Vol. 60, No. 918, 1 August 1919, pp. 432–33
  20. ^ The Times, 3 April 1919, p. 15
  21. ^ a b c d Helperin, Ralph. "He Who Laughed First", at the Memories of the D'Oyly Carte website, accessed 23 July 2010
  22. ^ Rollins and Witts, pp. 136 and 138
  23. ^ Rollins and Witts, p. 140
  24. ^ Rollins and Witts, p. 150
  25. ^ Joseph, p. 261
  26. ^ "Derek Oldham Remembers" at the "Memories of the D'Oyly Carte" website, accessed 2 August 2010
  27. ^ Rollins and Witts, pp. 138–50, 152–61, 166–69 and v.
  28. ^ Rollins and Witts, pp. 136–77
  29. ^ "Mr. Darrell Fancourt", The Times, 1 May 1953.
  30. ^ Rollins and Witts, pp. 150, 153, 159, 161, 163, 172 and 175
  31. ^ a b Darrell Fancourt profile at the Memories of the D'Oyly Carte website, accessed 2 August 2010
  32. ^ Walker, Raymond. Review of 1949 Pirates at Music Web International, accessed 4 April 2009
  33. ^ Trewin, J. C. "Gilbert and Sullivan Then and Now" 17 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine, reprinted from Far and Wide, September 1949
  34. ^ Bond, Chapter 14[permanent dead link], accessed 4 April 2009
  35. ^ The Times, 21 September 1926, p. 12
  36. ^ The Times, 25 October 1932, p. 12
  37. ^ The Manchester Guardian, 16 November 1920, p. 6
  38. ^ a b c Bettany, unnumbered page
  39. ^ a b Trewin, J. C. "The World of the Theatre", Illustrated London News, 11 July 1953, p. 74
  40. ^ The Times, 22 June 1953, p. 3

References edit

  • Ayre, Leslie (1972). The Gilbert & Sullivan Companion. London: W.H. Allen & Co Ltd.
  • Bettany, Clemence (1975). D'Oyly Carte Centenary, 1875–1975. London: D'Oyly Carte Opera Trust.
  • Bond, Jessie (1930). The Life and Reminiscences of Jessie Bond, the Old Savoyard (as told to Ethel MacGeorge). London: John Lane, The Bodley Head.
  • Joseph, Tony (1994). The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Bristol: Bunthorne Books. ISBN 0-9507992-1-1.
  • Rollins, Cyril; R. John Witts (1962). The D'Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan Operas: A Record of Productions, 1875–1961. London: Michael Joseph.
  • Wood, Henry (1938). My Life of Music. London: Victor Gollancz.

External links edit

  • Photo of Fancourt in The Mikado in 1926 20 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  • Photos of Fancourt as Deadeye in 1926 and 1934
  • Fancourt as the Pirate King in 1939
  • Photo of Fancourt as Sir Roderic in 1926 20 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  • Another photo as Sir Roderic
  • Darrell Fancourt at the Internet Broadway Database

April 10, 2024
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Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson OBE 8 March 1886 29 August 1953 known as Darrell Fancourt was an English bass baritone and actor known for his performances and recordings of the Savoy operas Fancourt as The Mikado of JapanAfter a brief concert career Fancourt joined the D Oyly Carte Opera Company where he starred in more than 10 000 performances over a 33 year period until his death He regularly played about ten different roles for the company over these years including the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance Dick Deadeye in H M S Pinafore and the title character in The Mikado which he played more than 3 000 times Fancourt was famous for his melodramatic style creating the controversial Mikado laugh that was later adopted by some of his successors His performances are preserved in nineteen of the company s recordings made between 1923 and 1950 Contents 1 Early years 2 Later years 3 Recordings 4 Notes 5 References 6 External linksEarly years editFancourt was born Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson the younger son of three children of a Jewish family in Kensington London 1 His father Louis George Leverson 1860 1909 2 was a diamond merchant who had made a fortune in South Africa 3 His mother Amelia Amy de Symons nee Lewis Barned 1865 1931 4 was a clever vivacious young artist of the musical comedy type 3 Both were staunch friends of the arts 3 His father s sister married Brandon Thomas 5 Fancourt was baptised into the Church of England when he was fourteen years old 6 Fancourt was educated at Bedford School and with a private tutor in Germany He continued his vocal studies in Germany with Lilli Lehmann 7 Upon his return to England he won a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music 5 8 At the Royal Academy he studied singing with his mother s former teacher Sir Henry Wood 3 and Alberto Randegger 9 and drama with Richard Temple creator of many of the Savoy roles in which Fancourt was later famous 10 While a student Fancourt performed in opera productions at the Academy creating the role of Tackleton the toy merchant in Alexander Mackenzie s opera The Cricket on the Hearth 11 and playing Colas in Mozart s Bastien und Bastienne and Benoit in La boheme The Times thought him amusing but not noticeably musical in the last 12 nbsp Fancourt as Lord Mountararat in IolantheEven before completing his studies Fancourt was building a concert career in London the British provinces and the European continent 11 13 The Times said of an Aeolian Hall recital in 1912 Mr Fancourt has some noble notes in his voice except when he forces it occasionally Schubert s Tod und das Madchen was remarkably well characterized it was quite his best and he made it into a thing of great beauty 14 In World War I Fancourt volunteered for military service and was commissioned in the London Regiment as a lieutenant 15 In 1917 while still serving in the army Fancourt married a beautiful Welsh singer Eleanor Evans at St Mark s Church Hamilton Terrace London 16 She had been a fellow student at the Royal Academy 17 After returning to civilian life in 1919 Fancourt sang in a single performance of Prince Igor in Sir Thomas Beecham s opera season at Covent Garden as Prince Galitsky under the baton of Albert Coates 18 This was his only professional appearance in a grand opera and his only paid acting experience up to that point 8 In the same year he appeared as a soloist at the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts and in oratorio elsewhere in London 19 20 Fancourt joined the D Oyly Carte Opera Company in May 1920 to succeed Frederick Hobbs who had announced his decision to leave the company 21 Fancourt went on for Hobbs as Mountararat in Iolanthe Arac in Princess Ida and the title character in The Mikado In June 1920 Hobbs left and Fancourt took over the bass baritone roles including the above parts Dick Deadeye in H M S Pinafore the Pirate King in The Pirates of Penzance Colonel Calverley in Patience Sir Roderic Murgatroyd in Ruddigore and Sergeant Meryll in The Yeomen of the Guard 22 In 1921 when Cox and Box and The Sorcerer were revived Fancourt added the roles of Sergeant Bouncer and Sir Marmaduke Pointdextre to his repertoire 23 He also appeared as the Usher in Trial by Jury in 1926 24 but he thought himself simply bloody in the role and soon dropped it 25 In 1921 his wife Eleanor Evans joined the company as a chorister also playing some smaller principal soprano roles She was nicknamed Snookie in the company and according to fellow D Oyly Carte performer Derek Oldham she was so beautiful was Snookie We all fell for her and we gave Darrell a busy time keeping us off 26 Later in Fancourt s career his wife was made the company s stage director and director of productions 27 Later years editFancourt continued to play most of the principal bass baritone roles for D Oyly Carte until 1953 The company performed almost year round in repertory during these 33 years and Fancourt appeared in well over 10 000 performances he played the title role in The Mikado more than 3 000 times 28 29 Over the years he performed with the company on seven tours in North America 30 Known for his excellent diction and vocal technique Fancourt was an audience favourite during his long tenure 31 Not only does he possess a velvety resonant bass tone but also has a relaxed vibrato that is particularly elegant 32 J C Trewin called Fancourt the lord of Gilbert and Sullivan playing Fancourt is both a fine singer and within the Savoy convention a fine and zestful actor with the gift of a dominating personality Roderic s song When the night wind howls as Fancourt sings it in the second act of Ruddigore is at the meridian of that opera and one of the glories of Gilbert and Sullivan in the contemporary theatre 33 The Times later said nobody who heard it will ever forget his singing of When the night wind howls 8 nbsp Fancourt as Sergeant Meryll in The Yeomen of the GuardOpinions differed about Fancourt s melodramatic style in his roles especially his interpretation of his best known role that of the Mikado of Japan and his famous Mikado laugh 21 Frederic Lloyd who joined the D Oyly Carte in 1951 and had studied the company s history told an interviewer that Fancourt invented his interpretation concerned that the earlier movements used during the Mikado s song could be taken as a Fagin like caricature According to Lloyd Fancourt had said that because of his Jewish background I just couldn t go through those movements it would bother me and Lloyd reported that when Fancourt showed Rupert D Oyly Carte and his stage director J M Gordon his new business for the song they were delighted 21 Jessie Bond who had played Pitti Sing in the 1885 premiere was unimpressed Who I want to know intended that the Mikado should prance about like a madman hissing out his lines like a serpent The raving monster we so often see now is not one bit like the suave and oily Mikado created by Fancourt s teacher Richard Temple at the Savoy 34 The Times thought that he undoubtedly loses a good deal of the Mikado s humour his humane Mikado scene is the one which seems to have travelled farthest from the Savoy tradition 35 A later Times review commented more favourably Mr Darrell Fancourt can and did add a terrifying aspect to the benignity of his humaner punishment manifesto and left us wondering how his vocal cords ever managed to function normally after those expressions of emphasis with which he punctuated its paragraphs 36 The Manchester Guardian praised Fancourt s fresh approach and added He makes more of the punishment fitting the crime song than we can remember having seen from any other actor 37 The Pall Mall Gazette said Mr Fancourt has recognised that people can do with a thrill in these Grand Guignol days So he has given us a Mikado who really does curdle the blood with a voice like a steam hammer slowly crushing a ton of Brazil nuts and a make up of ghastly villainy and a fiendish gurgling laugh which must be heard to be appreciated 38 Another critic described the sound of Fancourt s laugh as a dragon getting up steam 39 With respect to Fancourt s portrayal of the Pirate King fellow actor Henry Lytton told an interviewer The King should be a story book pirate not a real one and blood thirsty to boot But that s the way Mr Fancourt plays it 21 Fancourt was a cricket fan an avid golfer and a fine bridge player and was popular among his colleagues 8 31 By the late 1940s his health began to fail and in 1950 he gave up the role of Mountararat In his last year he continued to perform although he was very ill 13 Fancourt received the OBE in June 1953 in the Coronation Honours shortly after announcing his forthcoming retirement 40 The Illustrated London News commented He will be the greatest loss to professional Gilbert and Sullivan since Henry Lytton retired Besides his voice and presence he has the priceless gift of attack To watch him attacking The Mikado is to watch high tide flooding across the beach it is an irresistible surge and swell 39 Fancourt was too ill to make his scheduled final appearance and as a last gesture he asked a friend to take his make up to his successor Donald Adams 38 Fancourt died in August 1953 at the age of 67 33 days after giving his last performance 38 Recordings editFancourt participated in nineteen D Oyly Carte recordings between 1923 and 1950 in the following roles Mountararat 1922 shared with Peter Dawson and 1930 Dick Deadeye 1922 shared with Frederick Hobbs 1930 and 1949 Sir Roderic 1924 1931 and 1950 Arac 1925 and 1932 Colonel Calverley 1930 and 1952 Sir Marmaduke in an abridged Sorcerer 1933 the Mikado 1926 1936 and 1950 the Pirate King 1931 abridged set and 1950 and Sergeant Meryll 1950 He also sang the title role in a 1926 BBC radio broadcast of The Mikado and appeared in a four minute silent promotional film made of the D Oyly Carte Mikado in 1926 13 A photograph of Fancourt and D Oyly Carte colleagues with the huge recording horn used in the acoustic recording process can be seen here Notes edit UK official records including census returns army lists and birth marriage and death certificates confirm Fancourt s full name as Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson The name is incorrectly given in an anecdote by Frederic Lloyd the D Oyly Carte general manager who remembered it as David Levinson and at the IMDB site and the Memories of the D Oyly Carte site which both give his birth name as Darrell David Leverson 1891 census PRO reference RG12 1015 England and Wales Death Index 1837 1915 St Marylebone Volume 1a p 288 a b c d Wood p 114 The Morning Post 26 May 1881 p 8 1891 census PRO reference RG12 1015 and England and Wales Death Index 1916 2005 Marylebone Volume 1a p 496 a b Lejeune C A The High Noon of Darrell Fancourt Archived 14 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine July 1953 reprinted at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive 28 August 2013 London Births and Baptisms 1813 1906 16 January 1901 Parish of St John at Hampstead Ayer p 85 a b c d Obituary The Times 31 August 1953 p 15 Darrell Fancourt Naxos Records accessed 10 September 2020 The Musical Times Vol 52 No 815 1 January 1911 p 29 a b The Musical Times Vol 55 No 857 1 July 1914 pp 459 60 The Times 4 December 1913 p 12 a b c Stone David Darrell Fancourt at Who Was Who in the D Oyly Carte Opera Company 3 September 2003 The Times 30 November 1912 p 8 British Army WWI Medal Rolls Index 1914 1920 Darrell Louis Fancourt Leverson accessed 25 July 2010 subscription required London England Marriages and Banns 1754 1921 accessed 25 July 2010 subscription required The Musical Times July 1914 p 469 The Times 24 July 1919 p 12 The Musical Times Vol 60 No 918 1 August 1919 pp 432 33 The Times 3 April 1919 p 15 a b c d Helperin Ralph He Who Laughed First at the Memories of the D Oyly Carte website accessed 23 July 2010 Rollins and Witts pp 136 and 138 Rollins and Witts p 140 Rollins and Witts p 150 Joseph p 261 Derek Oldham Remembers at the Memories of the D Oyly Carte website accessed 2 August 2010 Rollins and Witts pp 138 50 152 61 166 69 and v Rollins and Witts pp 136 77 Mr Darrell Fancourt The Times 1 May 1953 Rollins and Witts pp 150 153 159 161 163 172 and 175 a b Darrell Fancourt profile at the Memories of the D Oyly Carte website accessed 2 August 2010 Walker Raymond Review of 1949 Pirates at Music Web International accessed 4 April 2009 Trewin J C Gilbert and Sullivan Then and Now Archived 17 December 2008 at the Wayback Machine reprinted from Far and Wide September 1949 Bond Chapter 14 permanent dead link accessed 4 April 2009 The Times 21 September 1926 p 12 The Times 25 October 1932 p 12 The Manchester Guardian 16 November 1920 p 6 a b c Bettany unnumbered page a b Trewin J C The World of the Theatre Illustrated London News 11 July 1953 p 74 The Times 22 June 1953 p 3References editAyre Leslie 1972 The Gilbert amp Sullivan Companion London W H Allen amp Co Ltd Bettany Clemence 1975 D Oyly Carte Centenary 1875 1975 London D Oyly Carte Opera Trust Bond Jessie 1930 The Life and Reminiscences of Jessie Bond the Old Savoyard as told to Ethel MacGeorge London John Lane The Bodley Head Joseph Tony 1994 The D Oyly Carte Opera Company Bristol Bunthorne Books ISBN 0 9507992 1 1 Rollins Cyril R John Witts 1962 The D Oyly Carte Opera Company in Gilbert and Sullivan Operas A Record of Productions 1875 1961 London Michael Joseph Wood Henry 1938 My Life of Music London Victor Gollancz External links editPhoto of Fancourt in The Mikado in 1926 Archived 20 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Photos of Fancourt as Deadeye in 1926 and 1934 Fancourt as the Pirate King in 1939 Photo of Fancourt as Sgt Bouncer Photo of Fancourt as Sir Roderic in 1926 Archived 20 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine Another photo as Sir Roderic Postcards including several of Fancourt in various roles More postcards showing Fancourt More postcards with Fancourt Darrell Fancourt at the Internet Broadway Database Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title 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