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They had surrendered not only rank, but swank. Like all West Point fourth-classmen, they answered to titles like "Mister Dumbjohn" and endured upper-classmen's humor. But as soldiers, most wore their ribbons. They were the gaudiest plebes in the Academy's history. On his grey dress coat, Cadet Clark sported pilot's wings, the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with 13 clusters, and an ETO ribbon with six stars...
Plymouth: Best of Spirit, John Loves Mary: Opera House: Blossom Time. San Carlo Opera; Copley: A Young Man's Fancy; Schubert: Call Me Mister: Colonial: All My Sons; Tributary: Arms of The Man Macbeth; Esquire: Best Years of Our Lives; Jordan: Schwalb, Primus, Anderson: Symphony: Peerce, Pinza, Holmes...
...Mister Merdeka." At the end of each speech he punches out, with clenched fists, three thunderous cheers: "Merdeka [Freedom]! Merdeka! Merdeka!" His followers roar the word, plaster it on billboards, use it as the Nazis used Heil Hitler in telephone greetings. Affectionately, they call their leader "Mister Merdeka...
...Call Me Mister," six months and a road company away from its Broadway opening, is still a great show. Harold Rome's music and lyrics, particularly "The Red Ball Express" and "Military Life," and most emphatically "South America Take It Away," have managed to outlast the combined kiss of death of the radio and juke box, while the entire east is only a shade or two below the group which has made "Call Me Mister" the best musical in New York...
Surprisingly enough for a musical, "Call Me Mister" has serious overtones. In one brief scene outside a trucking employment agency, where five men, including two Negroes, are remembering with pride their work together on the Red Ball Express, the whole problem of the Negro in America is pointed up by the ironic ending when only the three white men are hired for the civilian trucking job. And again, the Southern Senator sequence is not only good burlesque, but a serious commentary on bigotry and the unprincipled use of the veteran vote in America...