Word: madams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...December, 40-odd projected productions, many of them by practised hands, will have scrambled for berths in Broadway's 17 unoccupied theaters. As usual, playgoers can look forward to a full schedule of musicals : Lindsay & Grouse's Call Me Madam, boasting Ethel Merman, an Irving Berlin score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous...
...Hangman, I charge you pay particular attention to this lady. Scourge her soundly, man; scourge her till the blood runs down. It is Christmas-a cold time for madam to strip. See that you warm her shoulders thoroughly...
...with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris, where she had a date with President Vincent Auriol...
...packed. Laid in North Carolina in the 18905, and based on Foster Fitz-Simons' historical novel, it leans heavily on such standbys as the rakehell hero (Gary Cooper), the bosomy belle of the Old South (Patricia Neal) and the brazen hussy (Lauren Bacall), who is presented as the madam of what is delicately described as a "boardinghouse for ladies...
...York, NBC and its parent company, Radio Corp. of America, offered the full $200,000 backing for the forthcoming Broadway musical Call Me Madam. In addition to profits, RCA would get the record rights to the Irving Berlin music and NBC hopes to sew up telecast rights to the script...