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...picture balances one straight romance (Actress Williams and Singer Howard Keel) against one comic romance (Comedian Skelton and Dancer Ann Miller), but it is dominated by Skelton's buffoonery, which looks like a one-man history of low comedy -good, bad and indifferent. When he is good (e.g., gulping jelly beans at a poker game, only to learn he has devoured $5,000 worth of substitute chips), he is as funny as anyone on the screen. When he is bad (e.g., making cross-eyes), he is as tiresome as a small boy imitating Ben Turpin...
...cause a permanent change in the patient's hormone balance. Then, instead of the treatment making the patient normal, he will be forced to adjust himself to the treatment. Says Dr. Means: "The situation may be likened to that in which one tries to bring to even keel a boat with a list to starboard by putting a load to port. Perhaps the boat is righted, but ... if the load imposed is too heavy, the boat may sink! I believe that is what will happen with . . . ACTH and cortisone...
...movie is hardly more fortunate in its casting. Kathryn Grayson and Howard (Annie Get Your Gun) Keel, playing Magnolia and Ravenal, lift good voices in Composer Kern's buoyant songs, but Actress Grayson is less than entrancing as the belle of the Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill...
...tedious bore. In Hiding, selected as the most popular story in Astounding Science Fiction in 1948, is perhaps the real tipoff on the new trend: it is a fairly quiet story of a psychiatrist's effort to keep a fantastically high-I.Q. teen-ager on an even keel...
...sometimes lead pilots to mistake one side of the approach lane for the other. It substitutes a single row of horizontal light bars leading to the runway centerline. Each light bar is long enough to serve as an artificial horizon, telling the pilot if his plane is on even keel. At a distance of 1,000 feet from the runway, five bars abreast make an extra-wide horizon...