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Calamity Jane (Warner) is a good picture to come in late on. In that way the moviegoer can hear a little amiable shouting by Doris Day and Howard Keel, soak up some pleasant Technicolor, and leave under the illusion that the yammering chaos of the plot is put in order by something he missed in the first reel...
...rate, Singer Keel (who played in the screen version of Annie Get Your Gun) knows how to saddle up his songs and ride them for all they're worth-which, in this case, is not much. Songstress Day, as Calamity, is clearly aiming at the Ethel Merman manner. But where husky Ethel, with her large-bore bellow, can roar out a song until her throat fairly smokes, dainty Doris is more like a Girl Scout with a shiny new Daisy: she's loaded, but hardly for bear...
...plot, a musical within a musical, with its noisily surreptitious shifts from onstage to off, appears just too heavy and elaborate a vehicle for the camera to prod along. Even so. if other performers had spread the wings of song as grandly as Howard Keel (Petruchio), the picture might have been better...
Handsome Singer Keel, who appears to be a sort of Nelson Eddy with muscles, and is currently Hollywood's leading graduate of the Broadway school of musi-comedy, has not only a fine chesty baritone but the chest to go with it. As a blonde actress who plays a petulant Kate in a reddish wig. Kathryn Grayson pouts prettily but looks as though she is never quite sure...
...called only for ceremony's sake. A submarine, made of prefabricated parts fitted together, has no keel like other ships. Submarines are called "boats...