Response
Brooks Atkinson, in his New York Times review, wrote that "Gaynor's intimate musical is a model of skill and taste in this style of fooling, and it is performed by some fresh-grown youngsters whose talents have not been corrupted yet...He is lightly satirizing some of the more palatable follies of the day, and he is so neat in his touch that he does not have to clever...At the end of the first act Mr. Gaynor offers a very funny burlesque of old-time musical comedy-'The Gladiola Girl'".
According to Playbill.com, "In December 1948, a delirious revue, "Lend an Ear," entirely written by Charles Gaynor, set the town on its ear. Carol Channing was an overnight success as a loony, wide-eyed blonde in such numbers as "The Gladiola Girl" and "Opera Without Music, " and Yvonne Adair, William Eythe, Gene Nelson, and the rest of the cast made this one of the theatre's best revues of all time."
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