Word: billing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stormy Weather" was filmed in 1943 and is now being re-released a month after the death of Bill Robinson. It has a plot, although a sub-microscopic one. If you separate one song-and-dance routine from the next, you will find, jammed between, a few incidents in the life of Bill Robinson...
...than a rack on which to hang as many comic or spectacular scenes as possible. "Stormy Weather" has a few such scenes. In every case the success of the routine lies entirely with excellence of the performer. Thus any credit for the film must go entirely to Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, and Fats. Waller. Almost every other performer who appears on the screen is either uninteresting, poor, or repellent...
...Bill Robinson, the celebrated "Bojangles," is, of course, a superb soft shoe dancer. What comes through in this movie is not only his great talent, but his obvious enjoyment in playing his part. This same enjoyment is also found in Lena Horne and Fats Waller, and that is what raises them from the scores of run-of-the-mill actors in the film...
Richard W. Wallach '49 1L will talk with State Education Commissioner John J. Desmond, Jr. '09 today, following up his public promise to investigate Father Feeney's right to GI Bill funds...
Wallach's other ground for challenging Father Feeney's right to receive GI Bill money is the "avocational" bar of the federal statute. "Tap dancing and ventriloquism have been ruled improper courses of study," he said. "I would argue that anyone who wants to make an avocation of hate should be obliged to pay for it himself...