Cover art for the 1933 sheet music of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's "Stormy Weather" (from the musical production 'Cotton Club Parade') listed the cast of the program in a condensed hand-lettered sans that typified the 1930s and the Art Deco period. This acted as the motivation for Uptown Evaluation JNL; offered in both routine and oblique versions.
The Cotton Club was a whites-only bar which showcased black acts and was initially situated on 145th Street in Harlem from 1923 to 1935, then existed for a brief time in the New York theater district from 1936 to 1940.
.After the Broadway version of the club closed, its space was taken over by the Latin Quarter.
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