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Ethel Merman Ready To Set Broadway Record
New York AP notes Ethel Merman at St James Theater in Hello Dolly! with a standing ovation nightly. She discusses longevity, admiration for David Merrick, and her enduring brassy stage persona while revealing her actual 1912 birth year and four marriages.
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Ethel Merman
New York
Broadway
Brea
St. James Theater
Dolly
Sham Humilily
Astoria
Dolly Gallagher Leys
Carol Channing
Ginger Rogers
Peer Bailey
London
Miss Merman
David Merrick
Merman
Jooms Large
George Gershwin
Pye
Lincoln Center
Church of the Redeemer