The Gilbert and Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island a confirmed Savoyard. He’d served as vice president of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Society, and even produced a televised version of The Mikado in 1949. When Helen Marx, president of the Camp Avenue School PTA, asked him if he could organize a fundraiser, his thoughts turned—as they so often did—to Gilbert & Sullivan. Initially the idea was for Packer and Waters to run an adult-education class in G&S that would culminate in a performance of The Mikado. But when Packer recruited an old friend, Sally Buckstone of Oceanside, to sing, the seeds of a new group were planted.
Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City "Daily Mail". Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City Underworld London: Crime and Punishment in the Capital City is a 2012 book by British author, academic and journalist, Catharine Arnold. The book is a 'colourful, gruesome' history of crime and punishment in London. The book also examines the influence of the 'criminal classes in on literature' and examines the Soho gangs of the 1950s and 60's. In the "Daily Telegraph" Lilian Pizzichini described the book as 'a chronological account of theft, murder and riot, and the concurrent methods of restraining the population in the capital' and noted that