Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Trial by Jury and H.M.S. Pinafore were given a magnificent production last night by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players...
Gilbert and Sullivan is a world bearing no great relation to any other theatrical or musical art. If the proper romping tone is perfectly sustained throughout, any failings become trivial; if it is not, the audience will be making paper planes of the programs before the production is ten minutes...
Director Richard Grand and most of his cast have mastered this tone; they maintain an almost perfect balance between the mock-serious and the ham. Some of the principals were weak singers, and the articulation--an important quality in Gilbert and Sullivan--was uneven in both productions. But the G. and S. Players always know what they are doing, and they seem to take pleasure...
...main studious interests at Harvard lay in the field of natural history. The most conspicuous things in his room were his rifle, his hunting kit, and his trophies of the chase. He always had live turtles and insects in his study, and Mark Sullivan recalls "the excitement caused by a particularly large turtle, sent by a friend from the southern seas, which got out of its box one night and started toward the bathroom in search of water...
...Sullivan asserted that "Cambridge should enlist the services of Harvard and M.I.T. planners . . . they know Cambridge. They can be of tremendous help to us in planning the Cambridgeport and Houghton project areas...