Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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McCrary figured that the TV audience was ready for something different from the vaudeville routines offered by the Hooperating leaders (Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan). "TV eats up material so fast," he reasoned, "that the only dependable source is the day-to-day flow of news." Mixing the techniques of newsreel, theater and movies, McCrary developed an ambitious show called Preview, a "magazine of the air," which Philip Morris sponsored. Last month, Preview went...
These decisions-and similar ones involving, at one time or another, Shakespeare's King Lear, Wilde's Salome and Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado-were taken for British playgoers by the Lord Chamberlain who, along with such ancient duties as escorting the king to & from the royal carriage, has acted as Britain's theatrical censor since 1737. Last week the House of Commons debated a bill to end the censor's long engagement...
Highest praise must go to the principals. The generally high quality of both singing and acting fully compensates for the absence of big names. Brian Sullivan sings the tenor role of Grimes with understanding realism, and Ellen Orford, the widow schoolmistress, is touchingly played by Polyna Stoska...
Winthrop House's production of "Trial by Jury" by Gilbert and Sullivan has now been in rehearsal for four weeks. Present plans call for production of the operetta on April 29 and 30. Radcliffe students will play the female roles...
Arthur M. Shercliff, resident Choate fellow, who thought up the idea, is the producer of the show. Shercliff, an Englishman, came to this country last fall. While in England, he acted in nu-numerous Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, including "Trial by Jury...