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Married. Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor, 31, cinema song-and-dance man (Anything Goes, Call Me Madam); and TV Starlet Gloria Noble, 23; both for the second time; in Santa Barbara, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...comrade dies before an SS firing squad; the Germans try to drive Hypnos' detachment out of hiding by burning a forest; and, in a two-line episode, there is the soldier who, "between the two shots that decided his fate, had time to call a fly 'Madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Poet as Hero | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

...some $450,000 in checks from Hodge's office had been paid in two years to Fabric-Craft Sales Corp., a one-room Chicago interior decorating service headed by Mystery Man William Lydon, a policeman who was once indicted (and later acquitted) in the murder of a Chicago madam. Fabric-Craft and two other companies headed by Lydon listed two Hodge aides as officers: Chief Personnel Officer Lloyd Lane and Administrative Assistant Edward A. Epping. Epping, half owner of an accounting firm retained by the auditor's office, was accused by a Southmoor Bank attorney of cashing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Hodge-Podge | 7/23/1956 | See Source »

...Call Me Madam in both its Broadway and Hollywood productions served primarily as a vehicle for Ethel Merman. The show's latest version, now playing at the John Hancock Theater in Boston, in a way constitutes an even greater tribute to the musical-comedy talents of that actress. For Miss Merman is not in the play this time--and the consequences are disastrous...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Call Me Madam | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

...given the male lead (the role played previously by Russell Nype--that of assistant to the lady ambassador) to Dick Button '52, who up to now has been far less distinguished as an actor than as a world champion figure skater. The original Lindsay & Crouse script for Call Me Madam said nothing whatever about ice skating, but this difficulty has not fazed producers G. Sheldon Balloch and Clifford N. Lenox in the least. They have simply interpolated a couple of skating scenes and proceeded to re-build the play around the bathtub-sized ice rink that they have squeezed onto...

Author: By Stephen R. Barnett, | Title: Call Me Madam | 7/19/1956 | See Source »

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