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...getting many earfuls of "Where Can I Go From You," "My Memories Started With You," and "It's A Big, Wide, Wonderful World." Although Hope Manning warbles very nicely on occasions, there is not real singer in the show, no one who dominates the proceedings like an Ethel Merman. May be you must take that for granted in a review. But a certain amount of coordination and unity is essential, and it seems to me that Bill Robinson or Jerry Lester should take the show in hand and keep it more on one track. With such a store-house...
Married. Ethel Merman, 31, trumpet-voiced star of Panama Hattie and half-a-dozen earlier Broadway musicomedy hits; and William B. Smith, 39, a Hollywood actor's agent; between shows; in Elkton, Md. Neither had been married before. Roared Musicomedienne Merman: "Kid, love is wonderful...
Hedy Lamarrs and Ann Sheridans may come and go, but Dietrich will star forever. Her latest, "The Seven Sinners," is a cinema "Panama Hattie" with a Malayan locale, minus the fifth column and Ethel Merman and plus a liberal sprinkling of the Navy. Marlene, just as alluring in the part of a honky-tonk songstress as ever she could have been in her pre-Hitler Berlin musical comedy days, makes up for the loss of Ethel...
Girl Crazy was followed by a long series of Merman musicals, including Take A Chance (Eadie Was A Lady), Anything Goes (I Get A Kick Out of You}, and last season's Du Barry Was A Lady. Ethel has also made several cinemas, most notably Alexander's Ragtime Band, in which she gave Irving Berlin's classic tunes the de luxe plugging she had long since conferred on melodies of Gershwin and Porter. She has had some fun in Hollywood, including one session in which, during the absence of Don Ameche from his dressing room...
...dyed-in-the-wool musical fan will miss the spark that dirty jokes strike so wonderfully. For sex is at an absolute minimum in this edition. That and Ethel Merman are all it needs to concede to a $4.40 a seat show like "Panama Hattie...