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...them right into the present. The transformation is aided by brilliant modern costumes, both Voguish and roguish, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch; Shakespeare in tails seems no more anachronistic than Shaw in a toga, and at times quite as cynical. The play's "Florentine Widow" becomes a wonderful old madam catering to the occupation forces; Helena's choosing a husband is turned into a charming kind of debutante cotillion; and the scene in which the braggart Parolles (superbly played by Douglas Campbell) is exposed as a miserable coward becomes a genuinely funny affair, full of the gaiety, and cruelty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Shakespeare in Canada | 7/27/1953 | See Source »

...Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 20, 1953 | 7/20/1953 | See Source »

...Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jul. 13, 1953 | 7/13/1953 | See Source »

...Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 29, 1953 | 6/29/1953 | See Source »

...Call Me Madam. Ethel Merman sparkplugs a big, bouncy movie version of her Broadway hit musical about a diamond-in-the-rough lady ambassador (TIME, March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: CURRENT & CHOICE, Jun. 22, 1953 | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

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