Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...auditorium seating 10,000, opera, grand or comic, has been given nightly. The principal singers and comedians are imported; the choruses are local talent - St. Louis boys and maidens, trained throughout the Winter months. Velvet Summer twilights in St. Louis thrill to the strains of Verdi, Mascagni, Gilbert and Sullivan; the moon, that vision of still music in the sky, looks down upon declamatory stars in tinsel and brocade...
...Labor Party's chances of existence seem rosy, thanks to the remarkable Premier. No longer is Gilbert and Sullivan's song true...
Died. Winifred Emery, 62, actress-wife of Cyril Maude, smart British comedian; at Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, after a long illness. Sir William S. Gilbert, collaborator with Sir Arthur Sullivan in light opera, sacrificed his life in 1911, when 75 years old, in rescuing her from drowning in a lake on his estate at Harrow. Mr. Maude's most recent U.S. engagement was in Aren...
...fortunes of the pugilist on the stage in heroic blank verse. And now it has been suggested that the American composer turn away from Negro, Red Indian and Sunday Supplement subjects, and devote his muse to creating an interpretation of the character and physique of Jeff or John L. Sullivan for Chaliapin's titanic bass voice-and figure. This may mean that the operatic star (male) of tomorrow will go into training with a skipping-rope rather than with deep-breathing exercises...
...Famed correspondents include: Robert Barry, Samuel G. Blythe, Heywood Broun, J. F. Essary, Carter Field, Clinton W. Gilbert, Edwin L. James, Frank R. Kent, David Lawrence, Richard V. Oulahan, John W, Owens, Mark Sullivan, Ferdinand Touhy, William Allen White, Grafton Wilcox, F. W. Wile, T. B. Ybarra and many another...