Word: madams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two months of relaxing at private and public parties, it was back to work again for Madam Minister Perle Mesta, who sailed off to Luxembourg with 1,500 pairs of woolen mittens and other Christmas gifts for orphans...
...department-store manager suggested that crowds which had come to see Hoppy were duty-bound to buy something in return, the people's friend promptly punched him in the nose. A fortnight ago in Manhattan, Boyd attended an evening performance of the new Ethel Merman musical, Call Me Madam. Crowds in the lobby immediately crushed around him, but when the manager tried to extricate him he roared: "Hey-you! Let go my sleeve. These are my friends, my friend, and I'll come into your theater in good time." He was cheered...
...duties at the United Nations will prevent Madam Vijaya Pandit from appearing at tonight's Law School Forum, it was learned yesterday. Professor M. S. Sundamar, Educational Secretary of the Indian Embassy, is taking Madam Pandit's place...
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...
...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...