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Irving Berlin's newest offering Call Me Madam, features noisy Ethel Merman in an apparent take-off on Perle Mesta, current ambassador to Luxembourg. Berlin's score has been effectively combined with a Lindsay and Crouse book to make one of the top musicals of this, or any other, season. (Imperial...
...even take time out to look out the window unless we point something out to him," an officer said. That evening, Mrs. Mesta invited Ike and Luxembourg dignitaries in for a "real American meal," with steak and ice cream. Appropriately, an orchestra played music from Call Me Madam, including They Like...
Outstanding are Thayer David as the myopic Monsieur Organ, Priscilla Morrill as the spunky maid, and Paul Ballantyne as an Enlightened bourgeois. Jan Farran is a tempting Madam Organ, and Jerry Kilty is, just as he should be, incredibly impetuous as Monsieur Organ's son. Kilty parodies--with the utmost skill--Baroque music and Baroque graces in a lyric which he has written for Louis XIV, who, by the way, is seated in the Brattle Royal Box. And then there is Fred Gwynne who during the Prologue wanders in briefly as a most foppish of fops...
...said the country's gagwriters, but a serious vote for the "ten top laugh provokers of the year." Among the winners: Vice President Alben W. Berkley (public life); Jimmy Durante (TV); Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman (stage); S. J. (Swiss Family Perelman) Perelman (literature); and, in the field of business, bumptious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor...
...Call Me Madam,Irving Belin's latest opus, featuring Ethel Merman as a lady ambassador, is said to be based on the career of one Perie Mesta, now ambassador to Luxembourg. The music is Berlin, this time distinctly a cut above Miss Liberty, his last try. The book is by Lindsay and Crouse and direction by George Abbot, an exceptionally talented trio...