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...fair's biggest drawing-card was "Texas' Own" Mary Martin, back home to sing the Ethel Merman role in a roadshow edition of Annie Get Your Gun.* Twice a day, Mary played to S.R.O. crowds in the Fair Park Auditorium. Her nearest box-office rival: the Borden Co.'s famed cow, Elsie...
Annie Get Your Gun. Ethel Merman doin' what comes natur'lly-giving humor and bounce to a big routine musical (TIME...
Silver Theater (Sun. 6 p.m., CBS). Leave It to Ethel, with Ethel Merman...
Bing Crosby Show (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC). Guests: Ethel Merman, Alec Templeton...
Today things have changed, but not much. No more Victor Herbert, but Irving Berlin is very much around with a huge and highly entertaining hit called "Annie Get Your Gun." Ethel Merman is the star, but you don't see her until well into the first act, after reams of talk about her, and otherwise the show is complete with tenor, girls, comedian, and all other standard equipment, the most important of which is the feeble plot. While the non-musical stage and even the movies have moved with the times, the musical-comedy, with few exceptions, has lingered lucratively...