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...then a Plautus play called The Twins from Syracuse, and a rendering of the Marine song that no marine would ever recognize (Ab aulis Montezumae Tripolis ad litora . . .). Finally, after singing Te Cano, Patria, the audience rose to go-but not without a burst of applause for its hostess. "We love you, Dr. Martin," cried one Latin teacher. "Goodbye . . . Goodbye," shouted the kids...
Call Me Madam is "a story of the past-1951. It takes place in two mythical countries. One is called Lichtenburg-the other, the United States of America." As the show begins, folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There...
...before a royal reception, or holding a running phone conversation with "Harry" about Bess's health and Margaret's press notices-the show never has a chance to lag. When she lets loose full power with such tunes as Can You Use Any Money Today? and The Hostess with the Mostes' on the Ball, with every syllable loud, intact and sharply enunciated, Ethel Merman is undeniably the songstress with the mostes...
...graduate of Princeton, Whitney Darrow, Jr, has been contributing cartoons to the New Yorker for almost 20 years. His drawings have been collected in two books, "You're Sitting on My Eyelashes" and "Please Pass the Hostess." This is the eighth of the series on Harvard's next president...
...Washington, First Lady Mamie Eisenhower was hostess at her first official luncheon. The guests: wives of Cabinet members (except Mrs. John Foster Dulles, who was ill) and ladies of rank in the new Administration. After lunch in the State dining room (brilliant with yellow roses, white snapdragons, blue irises and that old standby from the botanical gardens, Baker fern) with music by the Marine band's orchestra, the ladies lined up for a smiling record of the party...