"Names make news." Last week these names made this news:
With a rich continental accent, a dapper Italian Count for her manager and a lady-like reticence about her private affairs, Josephine Baker, Negro dancer of Paris, returned to Manhattan to exhibit her acts in a new Ziegfeld Follies. When she left the U. S. ten years ago, she was practically unknown. Daughter of a St. Louis department store porter, she had run away from home, earned $25 per week clowning in the chorus of Shuffle Along.
For her first dance in Paris "Mile." Baker wore...
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