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Call Me Madam (Sun. 8 p.m., NBC). Special preview of the forthcoming Broadway musical, starring Ethel Merman...
...December, 40-odd projected productions, many of them by practised hands, will have scrambled for berths in Broadway's 17 unoccupied theaters. As usual, playgoers can look forward to a full schedule of musicals : Lindsay & Grouse's Call Me Madam, boasting Ethel Merman, an Irving Berlin score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous...
...hours later the tree was dead. Farther north, some Indians buried a white man, standing, with only his head above ground, scalped him and lit a fire close by. The heat made his brains boil and started his eyes gushing out of their sockets. In Casco Bay, Me., a merman tried to board a hunter's boat, had a "hand chopped off and sank, purpling the water with his inhuman blood...
...Falling in Love," "The Sun in the Morning and the Moon at Night," "The Girl I Marry." And even though Betty Hutton feels compelled to keep in constant and anatomically miraculous motion during her songs, she still has the bounce and fire required for any successor to Ethel Merman...
...read but who is the best shot you damn well ever saw, Miss Hutton overplays her part with her usual animal energy, and lack of artistry. Those who have a yen for her will not mind, but the discriminating may suffer, and those who have seen Miss Merman in the part had better...