Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...January 14, the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, traditional master in the production of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, opens a four week engagement at the Colonial Theatre. The high reputation which this company has gained is due to the fact that for many decades, it has regaled British audiences with the finest in Gilbert and Sullivan production. This year marks the first time that it has ventured from the Savoy Theatre in London for a visit to the United States; apparently, from the New York and Philadelphia reviews, this venture has been highly successful...
...combined his straight, hard-hitting front wall game with corner and drop shots to good advantage. Much like Pool in his style of play is the present intercollegiate champion, E. Rotan Sargent '36, to whom Cowles looks as the next National Champion. Sargent ran the present National champ. Neil Sullivan, to five games and is considered the most serious contender for his crown...
...oblong, dimly Gothic House of Lords, a furious drama unrolled between two Empire characters each fit to be popped straight into Gilbert & Sullivan. One was the Lord Chief Justice of England, tiny, rolypoly Baron Hewart. The other was the Lord High Chancellor, tall, severe, ascetic Viscount Sankey. Distinctly Gilbertian. with exactly the right lilt, is Lord Sankey's famed remark: "My first brief fetched two guineas-but afterward, roses, roses all the way!" Not since Sullivan set tunes to Trial by Jury has Justice provided a more diverting tale than that told on himself by Lord Sankey...
From the opening line, "You will kill your father and marry your mother" which was spoken in dull, hollow tones by Richard C. Sullivan '35, from behind the hideous mask of the Narrator, to the final peal of thunder, supplied by the machinations of Whitney Cook, Jr. '36, the Dramatic Club's rendering of Jean Cocteau's "La Machine Infernale" (in translation) at the Repertory Theatre is a fine bit of technique and dramatization...
Present in the Harvard line up this year is not only the runnerup Glidden, but also last year's intercollegiate champion. E. Brian Sargent '36, who holds the further distinction in the recent gold raquet tourney at Cedarhurst, Long Island, of having forced Neil Sullivan, national champion, to five games. On his road before giving way the finals, Sargent defeated Donald Simons, Princeton graduate and court luminary...