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Annie Get Your Gun. Ethel Merman doin' what comes natur'lly-giving humor and high spirits to a big routine musical (TIME...
Annie Get Your Gun. Seeworthy musical with Ethel Merman as both rudder and sail (TIME...
...Actress Merman plays Annie Oakley, the sharpshooting whiz of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show-and the gal whose name became a synonym (because they are punched with holes) for complimentary theater tickets. An illiterate Ohio lass performing miracles with a squirrel rifle, she is snapped up by Buffalo Bill, falls in love with the male sharpshooter of the troupe (Ray Middleton). Unfortunately for his affections, she shoots better than he does. But in good time Cupid's bow wins out over Annie...
With a comedy personality that gets better from show to show, Actress Merman gets huffy, turns toughie, picks a laugh off a down-crashing joke at 100 yards. With a voice that seems trying to establish communication with Mars, she blares out, incomparably, a series of brisk Irving Berlin ditties (best: You Can't Get a Man with a Gun) and a couple of love songs...
Irving Berlin has written more tuneful music in his time; the dances are lively but not spectacular; the book is much like April weather. But with Merman to pace it, Annie should run for two years...