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...dead weight: she knows how to command attention. But it's all a little like watching someone stay on a horse rather than perform as a rider; also a little as if two famous actresses were exchanging roles, and that, to complete the joke, Ethel Merman should turn up as Hedda Gabler. With Bette Davis not pacing the show, Two's Company alternately spurts and slumps. There are such pleasant-enough Vernon Duke tunes as It Just Occurred to Me —though it could have occurred to a good many composers. There are a number of skits with promising...
...latest of many writers to exhibit two colliding traditions of love. He wisely seems to suggest that there is something to be said on both sides, though his heroine's plight with her merchant of Venice seems a bit extreme, a little like the setup for an Ethel Merman song. But Cuckoo offers some sound enough comments, and some effective scenes. And there is the opportunity for Actress Booth to display her fine gifts for comedy and pathos...
Last of the liberty-loving U.S. celebrities to turn up in Cuernavaca was Musi-comedienne Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman. She blew into town just as the divorce gates were closing. But a local official in Juarez, a quick-divorce city in Chihuahua on the Rio Grande, came to the rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...
Divorced. By Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman, 43, trumpet-voiced musicomedienne: Robert Daniels Levitt, 42, Hearst promotion man, her second husband; after eleven years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico (see THE HEMISPHERE...
...Show (Sun. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Tallulah Bankhead and her guests: Groucho Marx, George Sanders, Fred Allen, Ethel Merman, Frank Sinatra...