Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from Syracuse, which they are doing with Playwright-Producer George Abbott. Their tunes are whistled in the street, clunked out by hurdy-gurdies on the curb. The press, fumbling for a phrase to describe them, invariably ends with one that is glib but nevertheless significant: the U. S. Gilbert & Sullivan...
Hesketh Pearson is an impressionable, aggressive English biographer and actor, a hater of psychology, politics, literary "style," for whom "two and two equal any sum that takes my fancy." This last credo has made his biographies (Doctor Darwin, Tom Paine, Gilbert and Sullivan) lively with anecdotes, slack on background. A onetime clerk who answered his boss's questions with quotations from Shakespeare, Pearson began his theatrical career under Beerbohm Tree, whose advice consisted mainly of such enigmatic nonsense as telling him not to suck his thumb. As an actor, he had one brief success, when he substituted...
Besides President Sullivan the 1938-30 Council consists of Robert M. Bunker '30, treasurer, J. Spence Harvin, '39, secretary, Cieveland Amory '39, Oilver P. Bolton '30, Claronce E. Boston '39, Charles L. Burwell '39, Morton L. Freed '39, Robert L. Green '39, F. Austin Harding '39, James Tobin '39, Mason Fernald '40, Theodore L. Hazlett Jr. '40, Frederick Holdworth '40, James D. Lightbody '40, Douglas Mereer '40, and Phil C. Neal...
...Josephs in Sullivan County, N. Y. is a bosky, 2,000-acre camp, one of the largest of its kind in the U. S., where 1,200 poor Roman Catholic boys and girls from the New York Archdiocese spend their summers, where Dominican nuns study and where Patrick Joseph Cardinal Hayes, well-beloved Archbishop of New York, takes his summer ease. George MacDonald, rich Catholic layman, papal marquis, and friend of the Cardinal, gave St. Josephs a $5.000 pavilion on Lake St. Dominic. In that pavilion last week, Marquis MacDonald, Cardinal Hayes, three bishops, many a monsignor, priest...
...enjoy a Gilbert & Sullivan touch to reports from Jamaica...