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...Wake Up by Myself, Lottie Gibson Specialty, both sung by Booth, and Coney Island Boat, sung by the chorus while Booth at the same time sings In the Good Old Summertime to form one of those two-headed duets (e.g., You're Just in Love, from Call Me Madam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, Jul. 5, 1954 | 7/5/1954 | See Source »

...officer replied. "Why can't he ride up in front in the Cadillac with the chauffeur?" "Never," said Zouzou. "I always ride in front with the chauffeur." The commandant waited. O.K., said Zouzou, "if the government is so tightfisted, you can send him along in my station wagon." "Madam forgets," the officer said. "The government confiscated your station wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGYPT: Zouzou & Safsaf | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...scooted back to Kansas City for an open-air performance of the musicomedy Call Me Madam, in which Musicomedian Truman was to surprise everybody by taking the stage to play himself in the last act. Good trouper though he is, he never made it. During the first act, grimacing in pain from what he thought was acute indigestion, he left the theater. Twenty-seven hours later, his longtime personal physician, Dr. Wallace Graham, relieved Harry Truman of a red-hot appendix and a gangrenous gall bladder. Practically bouncing off the operating table, Truman, in "excellent" condition, was a good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 28, 1954 | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

...madam called Fauna who runs the Bear Flag and once masterminded a flourishing South American export trade in shrunken human heads. She keeps a former competitor's noggin in a desk drawer to remind her of the good old days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Back to the Riffraff | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

...started out as an odds-on favorite when he directed one of his first shows, Broadway, in 1926. Through the years he added such winners as Three Men on a Horse, Boy Meets Girl, Brother Rat, Room Service, Pal Joey, Where's Charley, Call Me Madam, Wonderful Town, Me and Juliet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

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