Broadway Revue

Broadway will make room this month for a musical revue by Charles Gaynor '29, one-man musical hit maker since his unforgettable Carnival show DoubleTrouble. The Broadway-slated show, Lend An Ear, has been produced in Las Palmas Theater, Hollywood, by Wil- liam Eythe, who will head the New York cast.

A Dartmouth friendship is at the root of it. Gaynor's college mate, Fred Bur- leigh '2B, directed four of the Gaynor musicals, which now add up to LendAn Ear, at the Pittsburgh Playhouse in their original presentation. A Gaynor show at the same little theater, inci- dentally, featured William Eythe as song-dance man before he clicked on Broadway and in films.

Three years of study in Vienna un- der Franz Lehar of Merry Widow fame and Edmund Eysler, Austria's grand old man of popular music, paved the way for little theater successes by Gaynor in Indianapolis, Cleveland, and the East. In the Berlin-Cole Porter tradition, Gaynor is composer-author-lyricist. When his Lend An Ear was given by the South Shore Players (Cohasset, Mass.) starring Shiela Barrett several summers back, delighted reviewers predicted the Broadway production which has now come about.