Widely seen mid-way through the year 1943 was this COLLIER'S MAGAZINE profile of singer Lena Horne (1917 – 2010) who impressed the the West-coast press corps in the same way she did the ink-stained wretches of the East:"A local journalist wrote of Miss Horne in terms that had hereto been reserved for Madame Récamier and Theda Bera."..."What charm, what grace, what beauty!" sighed another [journalist], blowing his nose hard to keep back the tears."
"When she was sixteen she was in the chorus at the Cotton Club in Harlem, getting that job through her mother who was then playing in-stock at the old Lafayette Theater on Lenox Avenue...Her name up to then was Helena Horne, but Barney [Josephson] ruthlessly dropped the added letters. He also taught her a great deal about using her personality in her songs."
*Watch the 1943 Movie Clip Featuring Lena Horne*
