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...Says June of Ethel Merman's boffo performance as Mother in Gypsy: "She isn't Mother, but she's magnificent...
Musicomedienne Gray can line-drive a song to the exits, Merman-fashion, but her Frenchy never travels more than one block west of Broadway. Griffith's Destry is immensely likable but far too much the Arkansas traveler to suggest any purpose deeper than palaver. Everyone works hard to prove that everything, except the performance, is a joke. But Destry Rides Again only for the gold in them thar box-office tills...
...head of the bison on the buffalo nickel, and whose shop on Manhattan's Bleecker Street once delivered 125 neatly packed rats for a movie version of The Pied Piper of Hamelin, also provided the stuffed white Peking ducks that were passed off as seagulls when Ethel Merman blazed away at them in Annie Get Your Gun; in Mineola, L.I. Sauter was a taxidermist of the old school, a conservative who preferred to let his subjects keep their own skulls...
More than half of the senior class, 112 of the 216, will graduate with honors. Four will receive the Bachelor of Arts degree, summa cum laude. They are Anga Boass of Sherborn, Biology; Mrs. Dorothy Milman Merman of Great Neck, N.Y., English; Julia Otis of Takoma Park, Md., History and Literature; and Mrs. Gabriella Pintus Schlesinger of Boston, English...
Died. Robert Daniels Levitt, 47, longtime (1931-55) Hearst syndicate reporter, columnist (New York Journal) and publisher (The American Weekly), onetime (1941-52) husband of Musicomedienne Ethel Merman; by his own hand (barbiturates); in East Hampton...