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...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 (book by Joe Quillan & Izzy Elinson; music & lyrics by Vernon Duke & John Latouche; produced by Albert Lewis...
...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...
...Banjo Eyes" is the musical comedy version of that slap-happy farce of several seasons ago, "Three Men on a Horse," Eddie Cantor, whom most of us have never seen on the stage, hoofs his way through the part of Erwin Trowbridge, a greeting-card rhyme writer who dreams hot tips about horse races. He falls into the hands of a gambler, Lionel Stander, who Jocks him in a hotel apartment and makes him dream up tips. Then there is Erwin's wife, Stander's moll, a lot of snappy lines, one or two good songs, and Banjo Eyes...