Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ruddigore, as presented by the Harvard Gilbert and Sullivan Players, is a very pleasant evening. If Mr. Philip Alston Stone, the director, has chosen to emphasize the more trivial aspects of an operetta at once both trifling and consequential (its plot, that is to say, is ridiculous; its music divine), no one can blame him--for he often makes the foolishness seem funny, a considerable accomplishment...
Much of the credit for the evening's success, however, goes not to Stone, himself, whose methods for reviving Gilbert and Sullivan are occasionally those of an overworked horse doctor (great merriment is derived from a bit of business that goes roughly: "CRASH [large offstage noise] followed by some line such as: "But soft, he approacheth"), but to the magnificent female lead whose services he was fortunate enough to secure, a Miss Mary Lou Sullivan...
...Paul Sullivan in the number one spot easily overcome a potentially dangerous Peyton Howard, 6-3, 6-1. Sullivan, the team captain, is probably the fastest player on Barnaby's squad and depends on quick, good net play rather than a powerful serve for his victories. Howard was just unable to get the ball past the Crimson star who played flawless ball and took advantage of every mistake Howard made...
While not as fast as Sullivan, Doug Walter, playing number four, played the same steady game in winning his match against Lake Mayer...
...Sullivan and Ripley overcame Howard and Chace in straight sets in the first doubles matches, 6-4, 6-3. Adelman and Martin in the second position, as well as Niederhoffer and Inman in the last doubles post, best their respective Brown opponents...