Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mourning the japesters' heyday of James Thurber, Dorothy Parker, Frank Sullivan and Robert Benchley, aging (54) Poetical Punster Ogden Nash laid the blame for lost laughter to the cold war and a generation of young writers "who feel it their business to attack incest." Invited by Night Beat TV Interviewer Al Morgan to select one poem from the Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery most likely to survive the ice age 'of creeping exurbia and the great woolly adman, Nash moodily recalled "some hair-of-the-dog-gerel from my unregenerate youth: 'Candy is dandy, but liquor...
...They're just waiting for you to do something. When I'm driving, I have to take it easy, hang back. If I'd cut somebody off, or anything like that, I could hear them yell, 'There's Godfrey, drunk again.' " <¶Ed Sullivan, tabbed by the late Fred Allen to "last as long as other people have talent," celebrated the ninth anniversary of his Sunday-evening variety show. When it seemed that the occasion would be blighted by the decision of his cosponsor, Lincoln cars, to cancel its share of the CBS show...
Divorced. Barry Sullivan, 44, longtime actor of stage (The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, Too Late the Phalarope), screen (The Bad and the Beautiful); by Marie Brown Sullivan, 45; after 20 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...open in Sanders Theater Monday, July 29, and continue through Saturday, August 3. Included in the cast will be many of the performers who have been active in the organization since it was chartered by the University in February, 1956, for the sole purpose of presenting Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Claman said. The group's last three productions were "Rudigore", "Iolanthe", and "Patience...
With the exceptions of Brown, and Misses Kalkhurst and Linch, all have participated in previous Players productions according to Claman. Brown had the lead in the "Tree on the Plain". Miss Kalkhurst has sung Gilbert and Sullivan with the Provincetown Players, and Miss Linch "proved herself an excellent singer in Menotti's 'Medium'," he added...