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...Bouncing Betty" and "Leaping Lena" are names for the Nazi S-mine. No bigger than a quart-size tin can, it is buried close to the surface. When it is tripped it leaps five feet into the air, then explodes in a spray of steel in all directions...
...people are kept busy making the show entertaining. Jimmy Dorsey's band establishes one hit (the smoothly meandering Star Eyes) and one bidder (the galumphing So Long, Sarah Jane). Hazel Scott blends swing and quasi-classical music to the disadvantage of both and the delight of millions. Comely Lena Home proficiently marshals Count Basic's band and numerous choristers through a particularly unpleasant stretch of sub-operatic Africorn about the walls of Jericho. Eleanor Powell, who is the best female tap dancer on tap, proves it in a rope dance, a modified hula and a rampant straight number...
...dished out by Master of Ceremonies Mickey Rooney. Kay Kyser's noisy faculty teaches I Dug a Ditch, assisted by comely Georgia Carroll. Bob Crosby's band backs Baby Basilisk Virginia O'Brien in In a Little Spanish Town. Benny Carter cultivates Honeysuckle Rose for elegant Lena Home. Frank Morgan pretends to be a doctor, gets slap-happy in his examination of Ann Sothern, Lucille Ball and Marsha Hunt, who want to be WAVES. Red Skelton is a soda jerker with an allergy for ice cream. Judy Garland makes scat-singing like "Tchai-tchai-tchaikovsky" bearable...
...negro-cast, Including Ethel Wates with her voice and warm personality, Rochester and his poker face and mand-paper voice, and Lena Horne with plenty more, plus some hit songs, is what makes this picture worth seeing Louis Armstrong who blows a few notes from deep down might also mentioned...
Rochester, in his first real lead part, has earned himself the right to bigger and better parts, while Ethel Waters confirms the opinion of all those who have seen her that she's tops and Lena Horne displays her talents with great skill...