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) eaa12s Profile Merman belts out some famous songs by Rolf Gompertz "Every show I've been in has been a hit." Few entertainers can make the claim. But Ethel Merman can. Every show she's ever done on Broadway has been a hit. That's why it's only natural for her to be doing the Broadway medley in "100 Years of Solid Gold," a two-hour Big Event presentation on NBC-TV Sunday, July 19. The medley includes such populat hits as "Every­ thing's Coming Up Roses," "I Get a Kick Out of You," "The Hostess with the Mostes'," and "There's No Business Like Show Business," with Gordon MacRae, who also sings a solo number, "Oh What a Beautiful Morning." Broadway composers were among Merman's great­ est fans. "She's not a singer, she's another instrument in the band," Cole Porter said of her. "I'd rather have her sing my songs than anyone else." He called her "The Great Ethel" and "La Berman." She'll be singing one of his songs, "I Get a Ki^k Out of You." George Gersnwin ("I've Got Rhythm") signed a photo to her: "A lucky composer is he who has you to sing his songs." She's also singing two Irving Berlin songs, "The Hostess with the Mostes'," and "There's No Business Like Show Business." Berlin appreciated the way Merman belted her songs, saying: "I couldn't write a bad lyric for tier, because theyd hear it in the second balcony .' Says Merman in the special "They used to say, if you want to hear Merman, you didn't need to buy a record--just open your window, and you'd hear her, no matter where you were in America." So, on Sunday, July 19, either open the window or turn on the TV set to NBC, and you can hear her sing TV COMPUIOC SERVICES ;NC MA in the • B9 spotlight % "Upstairs, Downstairs" returns to Masterpiece Theatre July 19 The doors of 165 Eaton Place, shut for the past four years, will open again on PBS on July 19 for five weeks in celebration of Mobil Masterpiece Theatre's luth anniversary season. Promptly at 9 PM\ the Bellamys an.' <;.wnstairs en­ tourage will be at home once more to the mrtiMis of viewers for whom the seven-time Emmy award winning series had been a weekly treat for four consecutive seasons Lady Bellamy will miraculously come back from the Titantic and her watery grave, the King will come to dinner again, and all sorts of other events that transpired in and around the famous Belgravia household will re-occur as the 22-week Festival of Favorites continues with highlights of previous Mobil Masterpiece Theatre seasons. Back at the old address, which one appreciative critic rank­ ed "right up there with 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and 123 Sesame Street." will be Lord and Lady Bellamy (David Langton and Rachel Gurney), their son James (Simon Williams) and the rest of the upstairs clan Downstairs, Mrs Bridges (Angela Bad- deley) will cook up a storm, and Rose (lea" Marsh) will reign again as head parlor maid, while the im • mparable Hudson (Gordon Jackson) keeps the entire below-stairs contingent on their toes to insure that 165 Eaton Place runs in the very best Edwardian order The five episodes selected for the current Festival of Favorites are a sampling of the original 55 telecast in the US., and are again presented on PBS by WGBH/Boston, where Joan Wilson is series product' r"ollowing "A Pair of Exiles which opens the 'Up^ta^s Dowft t- << .i>> J 9. A ouest of Honour,' win air on July 16 both Nun 'tic Ursi yt.di j series. Series two. three and foui are presented, respectively, jy "The Bolter" (Aug. 2). "The Glonous Dead' A ,g a'r All the King's Horses." 'Aug. 16) By the time host Aliitaii voo'c introduce^ thy las* episode of the final "Upstairs, Downstairs" series in 9/7, >ome one billion viewers in 40 countries had seen the London Weekend Television series produced by John Hawkesworth. The end of the four-year saga brought a flood of protest mail from viewers who apparently thought it i oulci and should g on forever •CHECK LISTINGS FOR EKACT TIME TV COMKOLCXJ SERVICES. INC