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Ex-Shoe Shine Boy Becomes Top Broadway Clothier
Cye Martin, once a Bronx shoeshine boy outside Lindy’s, rose to clothier for Broadway’s top bananas. His clients include Jackie Gleason, Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Eddie Fisher, Jerry Lewis, and Tony Bennett, with Gleason once ordering 13 suits in one visit. Sinatra is praised as best dressed. most stars buy 15 to 20 suits yearly from his store near Lindy’s, now lit like a Broadway show window.
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Hal Boyle
New York
Broadway
Hamlet
Cye Martin
Keokuk
Cye
Bronx
List
Eddie Cantor
Lee Shubert
George Jessel
Bert Lahr
Jackie Gleason
Berle
Jerry Lewis
Dean Martin
Tony Bennett
Jack Leonard
Sammy Davis Jr
Frank Sinatra
Mark Hellinger
Sinatra
Globe
Gleason
Leonard
Sui