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Song & Dance. These unscheduled bits were topped with great helpings of pre-fabricated entertainment: trumpet-voiced Ethel Merman belting her show tunes through the rafters, Irving Berlin's trembling version of his own song, Ike for Four More Years, the pear-shaped tones of Nat "King" Cole's pop singing, the high reaches of the Met's Patrice Munsel, the stylized chitchat of Mutual's old-time Cinemactress Constance Bennett ("I don't feel well; I feel frazzled...
Call Me Madam in both its Broadway and Hollywood productions served primarily as a vehicle for Ethel Merman. The show's latest version, now playing at the John Hancock Theater in Boston, in a way constitutes an even greater tribute to the musical-comedy talents of that actress. For Miss Merman is not in the play this time--and the consequences are disastrous...
Among the actors, Winifred Heidt as Mrs. Sally Adams flopped around the stage without a suggestion of the poise and verve that Miss Merman gave the part. Rene Paul was dull but adequate as the supposedly suave Cosmo Constantine, Robert Mesrobian showed a certain degree of comic talent as Sebastian Sebastian, and Roger Starr was even funny as the protocol-minded charge d'affaires. The chorus line was singularly unattractive and un-rhythmical. Of course the play still has Irving Berlin's pleasing score, but then, so do all the record stores in the Square...
...mistake of marrying two women at the same time and ended in the electric chair. On Playwrights '56, Actor Larry Blyden won $74.000 on a quiz show and then spent an exhausting 60 minutes learning that it would not buy happiness. On the U.S. Steel Hour, Singer Ethel Merman was tearily dramatic as a girl who could not stop gambling-particularly with her fiance's money. Vaughn Taylor played her sad-sack lover and, at the play's end, viewers may have felt that his troubles were just beginning as he gamely settled down to married life...
...Ethel Merman, with Robert Cummings...