Word: gilberts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great historical importance, for it fixed the French light opera style for a hundred years. It was the chief stylistic source for the Offenbach comic operas, as well as for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones. But Goldovsky has proven to anyone's satisfaction that it is more than a textbook "influence," that it is an eminently viable stage work today and does not merit the obscurity into which it has fallen, especially when the almost ubiquitous Barber of Seville is not a whit better...
...Greenfield, Mass. 66 Swanger, Harry F. '61 G 19 5.11 200 Lebanon, Pa. 67 Henderson, Thomas W. '61 G 18 6.1 215 Washington, Pa. 68 Bellows, A. Robert '59 G 21 6.2 205 Manchester, N.H. 69 Waterman, David G. '60 G 21 5.10 200 Halifax, Mass. 70 Wright, Gilbert P. '61 T 19 6.2 195 Wellesley Hills, Mass. 71 Jeffrey, Frank J. '59 T 21 6.1 215 Pawcatuck, Conn. 72 Courtemanche, Robert A. '60 T 19 6.0 215 Methuen, Mass. 73 Hurley, Peter H. '61 G 19 5.11 185 Rumford, R.I. 74 Coffin, Howard...
Jelly & Gee Whiz. Zinssers is not the only discerning voice that has been diverted in New York, once considered a reviewer's citadel impregnable to siege. Justin Gilbert of the Mirror has been under tacit order since 1956 to pull his punches, a mandate he finds painful to obey. Last August, after a mildly unfavorable Gilbert review of The Hunters, a story of jet bomber crews, 20th Century-Fox Vice President Charles Einfeld fired off a cable to Mirror Publisher Charles McCabe, who was vacationing in Rome. In it he expressed "shocked regret shabby dismissal of our very important...
...dispensary of tasteless, colorless and odorless critical treacle, ignored on a wholesale basis by the moviegoer, sampled only by the movie industry itself, which is merely vigilant for any sign of recalcitrant tartness. The New York Film Critics met recently to wring hands over the cases of Zinsser and Gilbert, deplored industry pressure for two hours, and adjourned. "Nothing was done by the critics," wrote New York Post Critic Archer Winsten with some bitterness, "and nothing will be done...
Under the plan, the Barnard Gilbert & Sullivan Society will sponsor a Harvard production of 'Yeoman of the Guard' at Columbia University in January...