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...doing what comes naturally, and so was the audience: they responded with a standing ovation in Manhattan's New York State Theater on opening night of a vibrant revival of Annie Get Your Gun. Showing her age a bit, yet just as sassy and brassy as ever, Ethel Merman, 57, was back bellowing out such semiclassics as You Can't Get a Man With a Gun, and a new tune called Old Fashioned Wedding that Irving Berlin, 78, cooked up especially for the revival. Later, Irving and Ethel got together and toasted Annie. What a night...
This summer, Manhattan's Lincoln Center will stage a revival of Annie Get Your Gun with Ethel Merman, the original (1946) Annie. The idea so delights Berlin that he has written two new songs for it and added new lyrics to the anthem of the trade, There's No Business Like Show Business...
Miss Wood has indicated she wants the same lavish treatment from the Lampoon editors that Ethel Merman received from the Hasty Pudding when she picked up the 1966 Woman of the Year Award. Her press agent has already called the Lampoon three times to make sure the festivities get planned
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Fred Astaire is host, and his visitors include Ethel Merman, Jack Jones and French Mime Marcel Marceau...
Although under no obligation to sing for those who come to see her, it is rumored that Miss Merman has commissioned a song to be written especially for the occasion...