Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next to impersonations of Ed Sullivan, perhaps the most predictable feature of network television in recent years has been the outburst of yet another feud between the Smothers Brothers and the men in CBS's program-practices division. Otherwise known as censors, these men regularly delete what they consider to be the most offensive cracks from the Sunday evening Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. With equal regularity, the brothers threaten to quit. Last week, after a prolonged dispute over several parts of the March 9 program, CBS bounced the entire show and substituted a two-month-old rerun. The network...
Because he wants to go professional, Darwall designs an enormous number of shows--and has worked on Gilbert and Sullivan and Loeb shows simultaneously twice (Patience and The Dybbuk; Ruddigore and She Stoops to Conquer...
Actually, the workers on every production form a group; the factor of working together seems to always bring this result. Gilbert and Sullivan, musical comedies, every Harvard house--all end up with cliques which last at least one show, sometimes more...
...again," and his buddy really saying it again. It was there all right, a little dressed up, but dismally there all the same. Of course part of the fun is scavenging--a line from Casablanca, a scene from The Music Man, a bit of police marching from Gilbert and Sullivan--why not run through the most cliched joke conventions as well. But the business of an amusing show is to amuse and author David Patterson's inability to deliver the great laugh makes one suspect that the bad ones are there out of desperation, not for satire...
...Crimson Key Society has elected its new officers for 1969-70. President, Edward W. Jones of Kirkland House and Dahlgren, Virginia; VicePresident, Thomas R. Johnston of Dunster House and Schenectady, New York, Treasurer, James W. Sullivan of Winthrop House and Bronxville, New York; Chairman of Freshman Orientation Committee, Joseph J. Thaler of Quincy House and Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Chairman of Schools Committee, Mark T. Stein of Leverett House and Nashville, Tenn.; Chairman of University Guides Committee, Bradley P. Ware, of Eliot House and Buffalo, New York; and Chairman of Athletic Committee, Kirkman K. Dolby of Eliot House...