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Divorced. Singer Ethel ("Panama Hattie") Merman; by William J. Smith, actors' agent; in Santa Monica. He said she left him two months after their marriage last November...
First it was "Panama Hattic," then "Lady in the Dark" and now it is "Cabin in the Sky", first it was Ethel Merman, the Gertrude Lawrence and now it is Ethel Waters. With these Big Three Boston will be able to look back upon one of its best seasons of musical stage. And with "Cabin in the Sky" alone, the year wouldn't be exactly dull. Albert Lewis and Vinton Freedley have blown into Beantown a breath from the South, a pageant-like play of dusky dancing, spiritualistic singing and vivid settings, which has left critics winded right and left...
...prodigy in Denver, he made money for music lessons by selling magazines on street corners, picking berries at 2? a quart. In high school, young McArthur played the typewriter; his virtuoso prestissimo won him the Colorado championship. Then he turned accompanist and vocal coach, for Ginger Rogers and Ethel Merman as well as for concert artists like John Charles Thomas, Gladys Swarthout and, finally, Soprano Flagstad...
...success with its first ASCAP on Parade program, it kept the show zooming along by playing two new songs by Irving Berlin. One was an anti-Hitler ballad called When that Man is Dead and Gone, the other: Little Old Church in England. On hand were Al Jolson, Ethel Merman, Benny Fields and Hildegarde...
...Ethel Merman does four of her Panama Hattie songs for Decca. Fielder's choice...