Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Arthur Seymour Sullivan, meanwhile, was a serious-minded music student for all his Irish-Italian blood and romantic ancestry: his grandfather was favorite in Napoleon's body guard at St. Helena, and had the grim duty of protecting the dead Little Corporal's heart from voracious rats. But Arthur was a sweet-faced choirboy, beloved mascot of his father's band, successful candidate for a Leipzig Mendelssohn scholarship. Returned to London, he wrote cantatas, oratorios, 56 hymns (among them Onward Christian Soldiers), and also popular lyrics (The Lost Chord), and operetta-burlesque (Cox and Box). Victoria smiled...
Gilbert & Sullivan...
...travel drew a step closer to rail travel when Mr. & Mrs. D. J. Sullivan in St. Paul, Minn., bought a ticket for Rochester, Minn., climbed into a plane, enjoyed the scenery for an hour, inquired about landing time. "Rochester!" exclaimed the one addressed. "Why you're on the plane for Chicago...