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...bands, with pretty show girls and such movie stars as Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among the busboys. And the whole thing is free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Substitute for Mother | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

Banjo Eyes. Eddie Cantor lands a brassy Broadway musical on the plus side (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Season's Best on Broadway | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...news. Another quarter-hour is devoted to a roundup of editorial comments from the U.S. Since Bing Crosby's request performance (TIME, Feb. 9), KGEI has added a daily half-hour of entertainment from fresh recordings: Monday, Jack Benny; Tuesday, Cavalcade of America; Wednesday, Bob Hope; Thursday, Eddie Cantor; Friday, Rudy Vallee. There is also news in Tagalog, and a discussion in English, Freedom for the Philippines. The Philippines listen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio & Bataan | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

...white-rimmed goggles. But the eyes still popped, the voice still beckoned, the legs still scissored as though in time with an incredibly fast march. More of an imp than a comic, more of a song salesman than a singer, more of a ground-coverer than a hoofer, Eddie Cantor still rated the big time for his invaluable gift of always seeming like a nice little guy instead of an actor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Jan. 5, 1942 | 1/5/1942 | See Source »

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