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...heady night for the stage-struck-almost all of the 300-odd guests at the opening-night party at Manhattan's Hotel St. Regis. Some of them were towering eminences whose very names are magical incantations along Broadway: Noel Coward, Ethel Merman, Gilbert Miller, Lily Pons, Billy Rose. Mingling among the great and irradiated by their greatness were the humble and the hopeful-chorus girls and boys from the new show, stagehands and bit players. As Meyer Davis' orchestra blared forth the insistent rhythms of Irving Berlin's Show Business ("There's NO bus'ness...
Inside U.S.A. (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS-TV). Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy. Guest: Ethel Merman...
...opening show she managed to inject a few bars of her favorite song. I Got Rhythm, and gave the full Merman treatment to three others. She portrayed a fight announcer ("Tiger is fighting back! He throws a left - a right - another left. Now he's bringing a right uppercut from the floor - now they're bringing Tiger up from the floor."). She played every character in a "Pageant of American Womanhood" that included Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and a hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam...
...Defeat. This is Merman's second try at radio. Back in 1935, she went on the air with a program broadcast at the same time as Major Bowes' Amateur Hour and went off, defeated, twelve weeks later. She is leery of television: "I did two shows with Milton Berle. On both of them he had horses in the act - and everything that goes with horses. We were so cramped backstage that I had only a screen for costume changes and an electrician practically held a light over me while I changed." She added reflectively: "There must...
Since Ethel Merman has earned more than $1,000,000 in ten Broadway musicals (Lindsay & Grouse are at work on an idea for a new one), making a living is presumably not a major worry. One of her friends, puzzled by her offstage venture, asked, "What do you expect to get out of your radio show?" Merman answered shortly: "A sponsor...