Word: sullivane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...goal; for with their performance of Patience, the Winthrop group has overcome with case the difficulties of piano accompaniment and crowded common room. It has collected the voices and the actors, often lacking in the past, to preserve the luster of Gilbert's lyrics and the sprightliness of Sullivan's music...
...Daniel Webster, Willa Gather's Paul's Case. Davenport also gives students a taste of such lawyer-poets as Wallace Stevens and Edgar Lee Masters, exposes them to the theater with Galsworthy's Justice, Elmer Rice's Counsellor-at-Law, and even Gilbert and Sullivan's Trial by Jury ("For today in this arena,/Summoned by a stern subpoena,/Edwin sued by Angelina/Shortly will appear...
...music of King Arthur is fortunately divided among many characters, so that no single individual bears the vocal burden. The singers performed with spirit and clean diction, but after all, Purcell is not Arthur Sullivan and some voices sounded uncomfortably strained, However, Elizabeth Kalkhurst sang with beautiful tone as Cupid, while two little boys--Michael DeBruyn and Richard Wulf--stopped the show with their shepherds' ditty...
...Joseph P. Sullivan, Walter M. Ulin, and David U. Warren, the three seniors who went to Washington, quoted Harold E. Talbott, Air Force Secretary, as saying that the decision to withhold their commissions "is not closed as yet and a better solution is still being sought...
...three-minute introductions of the different numbers. Jack Benny had an uneven skit about his troubles in buying a ticket to a Rodgers & Hammerstein hit; Edgar Bergen made only the sketchiest effort at being a ventriloquist in a pair of episodes with Charlie McCarthy and Ed Sullivan; Groucho Marx got the best laughs as a quizmaster cutting Rodgers & Hammerstein down to size...