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...Alley has been hard at it since the U.S. entered the war, patching together patriotic songs. First number to hit the radio networks was sung by Eddie Cantor and Dinah Shore. It had been carpentered during a rehearsal of Cantor's show. Title: We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again...
There was Bach and Handel on the program, but the Bach came out of a mouth organ, and the Handel was background for the clickety-clicks of a tap dancer. This recital in Philadelphia last week was given by Harmonicist Larry Adler, a young man who resembles Eddie Cantor, and Tap Dancer Paul Draper, who looks like a blonder Franchot Tone. They had deserted the nightclubs for a joint concert tour...
...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...
...Dark," while Irene Sharaff's costumes border on the garish. The story itself is unable to hold the show together and the net result is a mixture of good little bits scattered through an evening of mediocre entertainment. Particularly fine is the end of the show when Eddie Cantor steps out in blackface to render such old favorites as "Ida" and "Margic," in the best of vaudeville style. But the performance smacks too much of that vanished type of theatre to be thoroughly pleasing today...
...denied that she bought 34 hats at Bergdorf Goodman. She beat him at a game of darts when they played at the Seamen's Church Institute. The Waldorf-Astoria said he made his own breakfast tea. At a broadcasting studio they laughed their heads off at Eddie Cantor. They arrived at Lady in the Dark 25 minutes late, chatted with Gertrude Lawrence in her dressing room. He wore out reporters in a fast five-hour tour of United Aircraft Corp. plant in East Hartford. She got a permanent. Son of a famous stamp collector, he disclosed...