Word: lichtenburg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Merman has been given better support in Hollywood than on Broadway. George Sanders, as the Prime Minister of Lichtenburg, is amiable with a pleasant bass voice. And dancer Vera-Ellen with her thistle movements is a gracious princess. There is, however, a little too much of Donald O'Connor at the expense of footage of Merman. O'Connor is likable as a young press attache, but Miss Merman's brash charm should not be diluted with attaches...
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...
Helen Gahagen Douglas, former Democratic Senator from California, will speak on "Issues Before America" tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. in Emerson D. Mrs. Douglas will be introduced by Professor William Lichtenburg and will speak under the auspices of the Liberal Union...
Call Me Madam. Big Broadway musical, with Ethel Merman as a lady ambassador to "Lichtenburg," but as, fortunately, no lady (TIME...
This time, in a highly topical spoof of a lady ambassador to "the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg," she plays one of those high-up roles made to order for her lowdown ways. She observes protocol with a pratfall, practices diplomacy by outright propositioning. When she gets fired and can no longer be called Madam, a grateful Lichtenburg hangs a cross round her neck that entitles her to be known as a Dame. For romance she has Paul Lukas, a distinguished actor who manages to seem so while having no opportunity to act; and for assaulting the rafters, there are such...