Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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This drama of early days on the Western frontier, written by Mrs. E. H. Sullivan, will be presented as the club's thirty-fourth production both in Cambridge and in Boston...
...Sullivan, another of "The Chisholm Trail," will be in Boston this week and will attend some of the rehearsals at Brattle Hall to confer with Edward Massey '15 on the coaching of the production...
...Lord '28, end on the University football team, and heavyweight champion in the University bouts last year, will be back in the ring this winter. John Parkinson Jr. '29, middleweight contender for the championship in the bouts last March, will also be boxing this year. F. R. Sullivan 1G.B., the coxswain of the University crew which defeated Yale last spring, did well in the bantam weight class last season, and is expected to offer strong competition for the title in the final bouts...
...Sullivan, the authoress, was born in Nebraska. Among her acquaintances on the frontier were Buffalo Bill and Major Frank North, both of whom she called "uncle". Her family was of pioneer stock, always pushing on to the new border-land of civilization. At the period of which she writes, a fierce conflict was being waged between the cattle interests and the general commercial interests that were striving to make the West a settled country. Although only a girl at the time, Mrs. Sullivan recalls vividly these stirring events in which her own family was engulfed...
Literary fame came to Mrs. Sullivan in 1902 with the publication by Harper and Brothers of her novel, "Out of the West", which told the story of the struggle of the grange against the railroads. For 20 years she was a feature writer for Chicago newspapers. Her activities in Chicago awakened her desire for writing of a more creative nature. She came to Cambridge where she studied in the 47 Workshop during the last year of the administration of Professor G. P. Baker '87. "The Strongest Man", her first play, was produced at Agassiz House in 1925, and was published...