Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Even here he executes a nimble prize-ring shuffle while ducking a punch aimed at his head by his rival for the attentions of demure Maureen O'Sullivan...
...George Gershwin was the creator of three fairly recent movie tunes, They Can't Take That Away From Me, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Love Walked In-all played under the title of Hollywood Medley. Smash hit of the evening was poised, satin-voiced Negro Maxine Sullivan, singing Nice Work and Summertime (from Porgy and Bess) from memory. The rest of the vocalists, apparently under some pernicious radio influence, had not bothered to learn their songs, so that the Lyn Murray Chorus sounded ludicrous in the insinuating verses of Do It Again: "You won't regret...
Last week a similar group showed signs of sprouting in Ridgefield, Conn. There at his estate, "Dunrovin," wealthy Manhattan Attorney William Matheus Sullivan, long an admirer of England's Glyndebourne Festival, recently inaugurated the Dunrovin Festival which he hoped would develop along similar lines. Held in a remodeled coach house, the first Dunrovin Festival was a modest beginning. Only one session of opera was held, and that consisted merely of isolated scenes from three Mozart operas. But last week a capacity audience of some 350 agreed that Dunrovin's preliminary samples of custom-made opera were impressive...
...DOUBLE LIFE-Mary Sullivan- Farrar & Rinehart...
...Mary Sullivan became a policewoman in 1911, when she was 27, became New York City's Director of Policewomen in 1925. She has guarded women prisoners from the Tenderloin, kept arrested women from committing suicide, taken care of abandoned babies, investigated dance halls, abortionists, matrimonial agencies, posed as a brothel keeper to get evidence against white slavers. She finds detective stories exasperating, thinks girls who answer matrimonial advertisements are taking a chance of getting murdered, writes sensibly, bluntly, complacently about feminine police work...