One of Sullivan's favorite and most frequent acts was The Supremes, who appeared 17 times on the show, helping to pave the way for other Motown acts to appear on the show such as The Temptations, The Four Tops, and Martha and the Vandellas.

This was not the first incident of apparent network censorship on Sullivan's show.

" Videotapes of the incident are inconclusive as to whether Mason's upswept hand was intended to be an indecent gesture ( as Mason's fingers are just barely off-camera ), but Sullivan's body language immediately afterward made it clear that he was convinced of it, despite Mason's panic-stricken denials later, claiming that he did not know what the " middle finger " meant, and that he did not make the gesture anyways.

A similar device is used in the plot of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1879 comic opera The Pirates of Penzance: As a child, Frederic was apprenticed to a band of pirates until his 21st birthday.

However, as time went by, Gardner became critical of many of the Rosicrucian Order's practices ; Sullivan's followers claimed that he was immortal, having formerly been the famous historical figures Pythagoras, Cornelius Agrippa and Francis Bacon.

Sullivan's first foray into comic opera was Cox and Box ( 1866 ), written with librettist F. C. Burnand for an informal gathering of friends.

With Sullivan's brother, Fred, as the Learned Judge, the opera was a runaway hit, outlasting the run of La Périchole.

The " patter " baritone ( or " principal comedian ", as these roles later were called ) would often assume the leading role in Gilbert and Sullivan's comic operas, and was usually allotted the speedy patter songs.

* The famed " skull and roses " poster for a Grateful Dead show at the Avalon Ballroom done by Alton Kelley and Stanley Mouse was adapted from Edmund J. Sullivan's illustrations for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

She was even the basis of Terry Sullivan's 1908 tongue twister, " She sells seashells ," according to P. J.

Louis Sullivan's polychrome proto-Modern Transportation Building was an outstanding exception to the prevailing style, as he tried to develop an organic American form.

Sullivan's only serious opera, Ivanhoe, though initially highly successful in 1891, was little-heard after that.

Even at this age, Sullivan's health was delicate, and he was easily fatigued.

Helmore also enlisted Sullivan's assistance in creating harmonisations for a volume of The Hymnal Noted and arranged for Sullivan's compositions to be performed ; one of the boy's anthems was given at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace under the direction of Sir George Smart.

Sullivan's first attempt at opera, The Sapphire Necklace ( 1863 – 64 ) to a libretto by Henry F. Chorley, was not produced and is now lost, except for the overture and two songs from the work, which were separately published.

Sullivan's last major work of the 1860s was a short oratorio, The Prodigal Son, premiered in Worcester Cathedral as part of the 1869 Three Choirs Festival to much praise.

Sullivan's most successful orchestral work, the Overture di Ballo, was composed for the Birmingham Festival in 1870.

But the latter work had only a few short runs, and for the next 15 years, Sullivan's sole operatic collaborator was Gilbert ; the two created an additional 12 operas together.

The first comic opera produced by the new company was Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer in 1877, involving a tradesmanlike London magician and his patented love potion.

Gilbert was surprised to hear of Sullivan's hesitation and had started work on a new opera involving a plot in which people fell in love against their wills after taking a magic lozenge.

It was the first of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas to premiere at the Savoy Theatre.

Major General John Sullivan's division extended northward along the Brandywine's east banks, covering the high ground north of Chadds Ford along with Major General Adam Stephen's division and Major General Lord Stirling's divisions.

In fact, O ' Sullivan's use of the term never extended beyond potential American annexation of Texas and the Oregon Territory ; he explicitly wrote that he did not believe that the United States had a destiny to annex Canada.

Sullivan also has engaged in a number of long-running discussions over disputed questions, which have extended across several years of Sullivan's retirement.

Despite this, the number ends with another example of Sullivan's counterpoint, with the chorus singing the second melody of the piece (" Let us gaily tread the measure ") while the orchestra plays the first (" Climbing over rocky mountain ").

O ' Sullivan's second use of the phrase became extremely influential.

This was the first Savoy Opera to use Sullivan's larger orchestra, including a second bassoon and third trombone.

A few operettas exhibit melodrama in the sense of music played under spoken dialogue, for instance, Gilbert and Sullivan's Ruddigore ( itself a parody of melodramas in the modern sense ) has a short " melodrame " ( reduced to dialogue alone in many productions ) in the second act ; Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld opens with a melodrama delivered by the character of " Public Opinion "; and other pieces from operetta and musicals may be considered melodramas, such as the " Recit and Minuet " in Gilbert and Sullivan's The Sorcerer.

During Sullivan's tenure as Ambassador to Iran, he played an important role in communicating America's directives to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the second and last Pahlavi king.

Pinafore, 1878, m Arthur Sullivan, lb W. S. Gilbert ( 571 in London ) ( first G & S smash hit and second longest-running piece of musical theatre in history until it was edged out by Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience in 1881.

Thomas Hardy's drama The Queen of Cornwall ( 1923 ) is a version of the Tristan story ; the second act of Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde takes place in Cornwall, as do Gilbert and Sullivan's operettas The Pirates of Penzance and Ruddigore.

In this way, Sullivan's theological work on charisms became part of the second paragraph of Lumen Gentium 12.

* This was Sturges ' second collaboration with Joel McCrea, following Sullivan's Travels from the previous year and they would work together again on The Great Moment, which was filmed in 1942 ( but released in 1944 ).

* Porter Hall had appeared in Sturges ' Sullivan's Travels and had filmed The Great Moment earlier in the year, although it would not be released until after Miracle.

In December of that year he led a raid on an encampment of runaway slaves on Sullivan's Island, killing 50 and capturing the rest.

Sullivan's army then carried out a scorched earth campaign, methodically destroying at least forty Iroquois villages throughout the Finger Lakes region of western New York, to put an end to Iroquois and Loyalist attacks against American settlements as had occurred the previous year.

He contributed his engineering talents to the construction of defenses that enabled them to withstand the Battle of Sullivan's Island later that year.

The following year, Carter returned to the DC Comics ' television world in the Smallville episode " Progeny " ( 2007 ) playing Chloe Sullivan's Kryptonite-empowered mother.

Sonia O ' Sullivan's first major international competition was the 1990 European Championships at Split, where she finished 11th in the 3000 m. However, O ' Sullivan improved quickly after that, and on 26 January the following year, at Boston, she set a new world indoor record in the 5000 m of 15: 17. 28, taking more than 5 seconds off the old record.

In terms of preparation for the Olympic Games held later that year in Atlanta, O ' Sullivan's best event appeared to be the 5000 m, the distance at which she was the reigning world champion.

That same year she turned 33, and found herself being replaced by younger models in Sullivan's magazines.

La Rosa's first appearance on Toast of the Town following the firing got a 47. 9 Trendex rating, and La Rosa would appear 12 more times on Sullivan's show that year.

While touring with the company for nearly a year performing Gilbert and Sullivan's H. M. S.