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...Show (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC). Fred Allen, Jimmy Durante, Ethel Merman. M.C.: Tallulah Bankhead...
After seeing Annie Get Your Gun, North Platte, Neb. Banker William H. McDonald, 89, who once lent Buffalo Bill Cody $4,000 to start his first traveling show, had a word of criticism: Ethel Merman and Betty Hutton were far more lively than the real Annie Oakley. As he remembered her, "she was a nice, quiet little woman...
...Russel Grouse; produced by Leland Hayward) opened with an advance sale of over $1,000,000 and the sort of fabulous buildup that can all too easily backfire. But Call Me Madam, while far from stupendous, is perfectly satisfactory-and at least can boast of one stupendous performer, Ethel Merman...
...show itself tags and eventually begins to toil after Merman, it never trips her up. Irving Berlin's score is pleasing and varied, offering now the pretty Old World tinkle of The Ocarina, now a pre-election selection called They Like...
...those phone calls to President Truman that are beginning to outnumber, on Broadway, the old Eleanor Roosevelt gags), but it is breezy and good-natured. George Abbott's direction is pleasantly breezy too; and Jerome Robbins' light and stylish dances provide an airy contrast to Miss Merman's earthy charm...