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...Call Me Madam (20th Century-Fox). Ethel Merman's wonderful brassy voice and personality sparkplug the film version of her Broadway musical hit (TIME, March...
...Madam, Will You Walk was the last play written by the late Sidney Howard (They Knew What They Wanted, The Silver Cord). It was groomed for Broadway in 1939 but closed out of town. Last week it became the first play offered by the Phoenix Theater, a professional, well-heeled repertory group that, to avoid Broadway costs, will produce on lower Second Avenue. The stars this time are Jessica Tandy and Hume Cronyn...
...stars this time were also more propitious. Madam is a light philosophic fantasy, about equidistant between Saroyan and Thornton Wilder, yet with a flavor and philosophy of its own. It tells how, from a sense of guilt, Mary Doyle, the heiress daughter of "a Tammany grafter who died in Sing Sing," has turned recluse. Into her parlor steps persuasive Dr. Brightlee, whom the audience has no trouble identifying as the Devil. But this devil is for the most part on the side of the angels-on the side, at any rate, of the world's artists and individualists...
Nearly two years after he accused his wife Zsa Zsa Gabor of discarding him "like a squeezed lemon," Cinemactor George (Call Me Madam) Sanders sued for divorce. He charged that, among other things, Zsa Zsa had left him "in a rundown condition." When she heard about the suit, Zsa Zsa cried: "George never bought a ticket or paid a hotel bill. He used my car, my house. This man didn't buy one hat for me ... I didn't even got an engagement ring . . . I'm a nice lady...
...moved not at all. "No, madam," he corrected gently, "just one of his loyal disciples, Arthur Darby Nock...