Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mikado. Ever since his production last season of lolanthe, there has been a disposition among other producers to leave Gilbert & Sullivan to Winthrop Ames. How wise this policy is was demonstrated last week in the most tuneful of the Savoyard operettas, The Mikado. This opera is the one in which NankiPoo (William Williams), son of the Mikado of Japan (John Barclay), disguises himself as a wandering minstrel to woo Yum-Yum (Lois Bennett), ward and fiancee of the Lord High Executioner Ko-Ko (Fred Wright). By crossing the palm of the stately grafter, Pooh-Bah (William Gordon), whose ancestry...
...before the President's departure for Washington, Rapid City editors addressed to him their farewells. The Democratic Gate City Guide, under the heading, "A Heart-Warm Fond Adieu," said: "In your own quiet way you have shown us still another winning of the West." Said Mr. Patrick Sullivan, Wyoming Republican National Committeeman: ". . . The Republican Party on this side of the Mis- sissippi has been stimulated by the visit...
...mistake. In Gilbert & Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance the chorus sings: "A policeman's lot is not a happy...
...PINAFOUR- Gilbert & Sullivan In the shriveled, feeble, almost blind person of Mrs. Carrie King, now cubby-holed in a dingy Man- hattan hotel, it would be hard to recognize the sprightly, buxom girl who was one of the early Buttercups in Gilbert & Sullivan history. That was in the '70s, when she was equipped with a cheery smile and a rare mezzo-soprano voice...
...Republican party was genuinely "stunned" but it soon recovered poise. Mark Sullivan, dean of Washington observers, pictured the G. O. P. proper as a body of hard-working politicians like Senators Smoot, Willis and David A. Reed, Secretary Mellon, Vice President Dawes, Frank O. Lowden, Nicholas Longworth ? men among whom Calvin Coolidge is, by temperament and tradition, a virtual stranger. These men, thought Mr. Sullivan, would be sorry to lose so good a vote-getter as Calvin Coolidge but ? personal ambitions quite aside ? they would not seek to nominate him now because that would be "the sort...