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Last of the liberty-loving U.S. celebrities to turn up in Cuernavaca was Musi-comedienne Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman. She blew into town just as the divorce gates were closing. But a local official in Juarez, a quick-divorce city in Chihuahua on the Rio Grande, came to the rescue. He assured her by telephone that she would be welcome in Juarez and would get "prompt and satisfactory service." So Ethel went to Juarez, and found that the service there was still prompt indeed; within 48 hours she had a divorce from Hearst Executive Robert D. Levitt...
...most part, Seventeen cultivates an air of the good old summertime. The people being young and the medium musi-comedy, there is naturally a great deal of dancing-all rather pleasant, all much alike. But the main reason why Seventeen never really clicks in musical form is that there is neither body nor soul to its music...
Shelley was born in East St. Louis, Ill., went through Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, modeled in Manhattan's garment district, had a fling at musi-comedy and horse operas. In Larceny, she worked with a young director (George Sherman) and two writers fresh from radio (Herbert Margolis and Louis Morheim) who let her try Tory her own way. She gave it a strong blend of sex, humor, loneliness and desperation. A fair percentage of males in any audience might be scared of Tory, but few would run away...
Last week, in the mud flats adjoining the Musi River, in a 50-mile enclave only recently cleared by the Dutch of Indonesian insurgents, Palembang started refining stored crude left by the Japanese. The wells, some dynamited and others partly .destroyed by fire, were just beginning to flow. But tough, ruddy-faced Harry A. Gibbon, who had led Standard's task force to Palembang, hopes to have them in full production soon. By summer, he expects" to have Palembang turning out its prewar 45,000 barrels...
Show Boat. Still a captivating musi-comedy, with probably the best-loved of all American musicomedy scores (TIME...