Howard Vernon was an Australian actor best known for his performances in comic roles of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas with the J. C. Williamson company.
Howard Vernon in 1905
Vernon in 1882
Vernon in later life
Vernon as King Gama in Princess Ida, 1906
Utopia, Limited
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Utopia, Limited; or, The Flowers of Progress, is a Savoy opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It was the next-to-last of Gilbert and Sullivan's fourteen collaborations,
Howard Vernon (Australian actor)
…with considerable advantage to the character he assumes, and without diminishing its sombre and saturnine humour." In 1906 he played King Paramount in Utopia, Limited; the Melbourne Age felt that he was no longer equal to the vocal After that, among many other works, Vernon appeared as the dissolute Duke in La Cigale…
Early advertisement showing the drawing room scene
Rutland Barrington as King Paramount
Nancy McIntosh and Charles Kenningham
Owen and Perry as Nekaya and Kalyba