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As the protocol-bound diplomat who cramps Ethel Merman's style in the current Broadway hit Call MeMadam, Alan Hewitt '34 is making a highly successful switch from serious drama to musical comedy. He has received unanimously laudatory notices for his handling of the non-singing role of the rigid Charge dAffaires, who insists upon adherence to protocol, while Miss Merman as lady ambassador to Lichtenburg (thinly disguised counterpart of Perle Mesta, U. S. Minister to Luxembourg) has different ideas as to how the job should be handled.

Hewitt, who played with the Lunts in The Taming of the Shrew the year after his graduation, stayed with them in Idiot's Delight, The Sea Gull and Amphitryon '3B. In 1940 he played the part of the magazine salesman in Saroyan's Love's Old Sweet Song and received praise for his performance as a sadistic Nazi captain in The Moon IsDown. Most recently he appeared in Arthur Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning Death of a Salesman, taking the role of the young employer. All in all, since leaving the boards of Robinson and Webster in Hanover he has enjoyed an acting career of distinction—and now of variety.

ALAN HEWITT '34 in a scene with Ethel Merman in the current Broadway hit, "Call Me Madam."