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...songstress, plucked from an Oklahoma City TV show, is a ten-year-old named Gayla Peevey. Gayla has a precociously mature manner before a microphone and delivers her lines with the raucous confidence of an Ethel Merman. In recognition of the fact that Hippopotamus has already sold better than 300,000 copies, i.e., about as well as Mommy at the same time last year, Mitch Miller and Columbia are hunting up more songs for her to sing. In a recognition of its own, Oklahoma City's WKY-TV, which discovered Gayla, began an air campaign this week for public...
Jimmy Durante, with Ethel Merman...
...rate, Singer Keel (who played in the screen version of Annie Get Your Gun) knows how to saddle up his songs and ride them for all they're worth-which, in this case, is not much. Songstress Day, as Calamity, is clearly aiming at the Ethel Merman manner. But where husky Ethel, with her large-bore bellow, can roar out a song until her throat fairly smokes, dainty Doris is more like a Girl Scout with a shiny new Daisy: she's loaded, but hardly for bear...
...Ethel Merman and Mary Martin...
...Rats in a Tub. Booster Bob built the fair up to Texas-style proportions, too, with everything from prize Herefords and mohair goats to Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. He enlarged the Cotton Bowl, wooed out-of-state industries and raised prodigious amounts of money for the Dallas Symphony.* An effortless worker, he delegates authority freely, but expects his associates to be always on the ready line ("If it's gonna be a do meeting, O.K. If you're gonna run around like rats in a tub, I don't want any part...