Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Well, what is Gilbert Frankau's "THIS"? Citizens of the U. S. began to form a definite opinion when they turned to page 13 and read "The Week in The States" by Willis J. Abbot, stated by Britannia to be "recognized as one of the premier political writers of America...
...STORY OF GILBERT AND SULLIVAN ?Isaac Goldberg?Simon &; Schuster...
...Story. Siamese twins, Mary and her little lamb, Smith Brother beards, are not more indissolubly linked than Gilbert and Sullivan; yet two more disparate temperaments could hardly be imagined. "Gilbert had been born with a genius for petulance, for hostility. Sullivan made friends as naturally as Gilbert made enemies; he was a social creature in whom conformity at times could take on the contours of self-surrender. Gilbert domineered; Sullivan insinuated himself.'' And yet, in their repeated quarrels, it was Gilbert who made the first overtures of reconciliation, it was Gilbert who conceded everything, agreed to Sullivan's wishes, then...
...have been wide favorites these 50 years?H. M. S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzancc, Patience, lolanthe, The Mikado, Ruddigore. But it was also D'Oyly Carte who charged the famous Ł140 carpet to The Gondoliers, thereby traditionally starting the passionate if intermittent quarrel between the gifted collaborators. Gilbert objected to the extravagance, and flew into a rage because Sullivan refused to join in the objection. But in those days of their affluence the trouble obviously lay deeper than...
Sullivan, for all the delirious ridiculousness inherent in his music, had long been chafing at Gilbert's contagiously ridiculous topsy-turvydom. He had long cherished the ambition to do something more dignified, more pretentious, more "worthy" of his musical ability. Already he had demanded that Gilbert write something more substantial "without the supernatural and improbable;" Gilbert had bridled, rued, agreed to. capitulate, then blithely written?The Mikado! Superbly Sullivan matched improbable for improbable, comic for comic, and suspected miserably that he was belittling...