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Ethel Morman's singing and Irving Berlin's music are the saving graces of Call Mc Madam (Imperial, 45th), a disappointing show considering the amount of talent involved. The grace and Paul Hartman revue, Tickets, Please! (Mark Hellinger, B'way and 53rd) is a first-class, consistently funny musical revne...
...Call Me Madam (music & lyrics by Irving Berlin; book by Howard Lindsay & Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) opened with an advance sale of over $1,000,000 and the sort of fabulous buildup that can all too easily backfire. But Call Me Madam, while far from stupendous, is perfectly satisfactory-and at least can boast of one stupendous performer, Ethel Merman...
...Call her madam-or Madame Du Barry, or Panama Hattie, or Annie Oakley
...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 numbers as The Hostess...
...frozen foods and twelve million gallons of juice concentrate. And it changed the nation's cooking and eating habits: many families which once used canned goods all through the winter now eat fresh food out of the freezer. One cook, before accepting a job, asked: "Does madam peel or does madam Birds...