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Hello, Ethel. Most patrons of Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital Gift Shop do a double take when the auburn-haired saleslady hands them their change. Pressed, she admits, "Yes, I'm Ethel Merman." Keeping her Klaxon mute, Ethel does not even hum as she bustles about the shop, straightening rows of candy bars and selling cookies. But, say admiring fellow workers, "she's definitely improved sales." Enlisting as a volunteer when her mother was hospitalized at Roosevelt eleven months ago, Ethel was first a patients' escort, then joined the gift shop. Now she comes in at least...
Karen Morrow belts like Merman. Rob ert Guillaume and Gail Nelson do a stir ring duet from Porgy and Bess. It is all nostalgia, perhaps; yet most of the songs sound as fresh as opening night...
ANYTHING GOES was before our time -- 1943 to be exact -- but who cares? The less quibbling about the insertion of Cole Porter songs from other shows and the fewer praises for Ethel Merman, the better. Take the references to the WPA, the Depression and Prohibition as camp antiques or anachronisms, but take them. At Leverett House, anything goes, and almost everything goes well...
...Woman of the Year award has usually been given to an actress, although the Pudding did give it to Mamie Eisenhower in the 1950's. Some of the actresses who have won the award are Gertrude Lawrence, Katherine Hepburn, Ethel Merman, Rosiland Russell, Lauren Bacall and Shirley Maclaine...
...years, no one built a new legitimate theater on Broadway. Now there is one: the Uris Theatre, with 1,896 seats, at the base of a new 50-story office building. To celebrate its opening, a crowd of Broadway luminaries-including Ethel Merman, Thornton Wilder, Fred and Adele Astaire and a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First...