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...competition is furious. Producers' royalties have shot up to 10% per record, and producers switch unpredictably to different labels as they bring out new shows. RCA Victor cinched the rights to Call Me Madam by financing the musicomedy for $225,000, but had to do without Star Ethel Merman, whose recording contract committed her to do the songs for Decca...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Actors in the Living Room | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

Irving Berlin's newest offering Call Me Madam, features noisy Ethel Merman in an apparent take-off on Perle Mesta, current ambassador to Luxembourg. Berlin's score has been effectively combined with a Lindsay and Crouse book to make one of the top musicals of this, or any other, season. (Imperial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gotham Lights Beckon Exam Weary Students | 2/1/1951 | See Source »

...said the country's gagwriters, but a serious vote for the "ten top laugh provokers of the year." Among the winners: Vice President Alben W. Berkley (public life); Jimmy Durante (TV); Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman (stage); S. J. (Swiss Family Perelman) Perelman (literature); and, in the field of business, bumptious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: To Have & Have Not | 1/15/1951 | See Source »

Call Me Madam,Irving Belin's latest opus, featuring Ethel Merman as a lady ambassador, is said to be based on the career of one Perie Mesta, now ambassador to Luxembourg. The music is Berlin, this time distinctly a cut above Miss Liberty, his last try. The book is by Lindsay and Crouse and direction by George Abbot, an exceptionally talented trio...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NYC Seethes with Entertainment for Holidays | 12/19/1950 | See Source »

...mere words. When a department-store manager suggested that crowds which had come to see Hoppy were duty-bound to buy something in return, the people's friend promptly punched him in the nose. A fortnight ago in Manhattan, Boyd attended an evening performance of the new Ethel Merman musical, Call Me Madam. Crowds in the lobby immediately crushed around him, but when the manager tried to extricate him he roared: "Hey-you! Let go my sleeve. These are my friends, my friend, and I'll come into your theater in good time." He was cheered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Kiddies in the Old Corral | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

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