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...Little Esther" Jones is only 14; but she is a big girl (137 lbs.) with a big voice and a following that may set other coffee-colored coloraturas such as Lena Home and Dinah Washington looking over their shoulders. One of Little Esther's records, Double Crossing Blues, has been among the ten bestselling "race" records for 22 weeks; two others, Cupid's Boogie and Mistrustin' Blues, have been up in the big time more than a month...
Marriage Revealed. Lena Horne, 32, sultry-voiced café au lait nightclub and cinema songstress (Words and Music); and Lennie Hayton, 42, onetime M-G-M music director; both for the second time; in Paris, in December...
There were a few drawbacks. The armory was so big that the music and entertainment (Singers Phil Regan and Lena Home, Dancers Sally & Tony DeMarco) might have been off in Kalamazoo. It was all but impossible to ogle the dignitaries at the head table. Hundreds of Government executives were forced to parade up & down in front of it so their bosses could see that they had not shirked their political duty by staying home and saving the admission charge...
...nothing more 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...