Word: gilbert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boys from Syracuse, which they are doing with Playwright-Producer George Abbott. Their tunes are whistled in the street, clunked out by hurdy-gurdies on the curb. The press, fumbling for a phrase to describe them, invariably ends with one that is glib but nevertheless significant: the U. S. Gilbert & Sullivan...
Hesketh Pearson is an impressionable, aggressive English biographer and actor, a hater of psychology, politics, literary "style," for whom "two and two equal any sum that takes my fancy." This last credo has made his biographies (Doctor Darwin, Tom Paine, Gilbert and Sullivan) lively with anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted...
...enjoy a Gilbert & Sullivan touch to reports from Jamaica...
Last week, Richard Malone received a WPA check for $6.54 for 13 hours of manual labor. Father Malone returned the check, but this time the story got into the newspapers. Suspended under suspicion of collusion were two WPA timekeepers, Gilbert Colley and Max Whoolery, and Richard Malone actually got a job posing for photographers, sitting down, with pick & shovel beside...
Gateway (Twentieth Century-Fox). Grand Hotel melodrama against an Ellis Island background, with Don Ameche, Arleen Whelan, Gregory Ratoff, Binnie Barnes and Gilbert Roland...