Word: banjo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...season did best with musicals (Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Best Foot Forward, Sons o' Fun) and with revivals (Macbeth, Porgy and Bess, Candida). Thoroughly revived also, after a long, troubled sleep, was vaudeville...
Restless, grasshoppity Comic Eddie Cantor underwent a minor operation in a Manhattan hospital, made his weekly broadcast from bed, but had to close his musicomedy Banjo Eyes, because his doctor insisted that he keep off his feet for a while...
...Banjo Eyes. Eddie Cantor lands a brassy Broadway musical on the plus side (TIME...
...playwright has scored a real success. Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit and Patrick Hamilton's Angel Street are by Englishmen; Junior Miss is a hack dramatization of surefire short-story material. Only healthy child of Broadway this season is musicomedy, with Let's Face It!, Banjo Eyes, Sons o' Fun, Best Foot Forward, High Kickers...
...Banjo Eyes itself is more of a Cantor show window than a show. Loud, lavish, densely populated, it is full of corn-fed gags and Broadway energy. Though based on a funny farce, Three Men on a Horse, it remains faithful only to the plot, brazenly two-times the humor. The music is commonplace, the dancing lively and plentiful but uninspired. Pretty bad but never boring, Banjo Eyes serves well enough to bring home the prodigal...