Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Everyone knows Mama Rose’s first line in 1959’s “Gypsy.” It’s “Count four before you start, Louise!” Or at least it was. But one ...

Everyone knows Mama Rose’s first line in 1959’s “Gypsy.” It’s “Count four before you start, Louise!” Or at least it was. But one day in rehearsal Ethel Merman crossed it out for the line everybody now ...

That nugget is among the discoveries in the Merman memorabilia collected by Tony Cointreau, an heir to the liqueur family. Cointreau considers Merman one of his “other mothers,” alongside Lee Lehman, ...