Insult to U.S.A. Baby Esther Abroad, Year's Biggest Scandal
Milk refused. Swedish reply is invites from best families. Baby Esther, the ten-year-old dancing wonder, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Jones of Chicago, and her manager, Sidney Garner, passed through this city on her way to Nice and Monte Carlo to fill engagements there. She is said to be the highest paid child artist in the world. She has just left Berlin where she played at the Winter Garden at a salary of $750 a week, for 6 weeks.
Her story reads like a fairy tale. Four years ago she was playing in the streets of Chicago, dancing the Charleston just for fun. Her companions were poor just like herself. Now she has jewels, and her dresses are being made by some of the best designers. As to offers to appear both on the stage and in the moving pictures, she is getting more than she could fill in ten years from all over Europe. At ten, Baby Esther is wealthy.
Started at five. She scored her first success when just a little over five. There was a Charleston contest and she won first prize.
A white manager saw her and got her engagements in New York, Chicago, Toronto, and other cities. Later he brought her to Europe where she made an instant hit. Appearing at the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, the Empire, and other theatres, her audiences went wild about her, while the Parisian press gave much space to her.
Vu. leading illustrated weekly, devoted its entire front page to her picture and carried a two page story about her. Before Kings and Queens. Since then she has danced and sang in many private homes all over Europe as well as for the King and Queen of Spain, and the King and Queen of Sweden.
Vu said of her: "Dressed in a costume with spangles, like some brilliant little butterfly, the light of the projectors is shining on her. With surprise one realises that her flute-live voice comes distinctly to each in the audience. She sings at first, her body softly swaying to the accompaniment of the popular American songs that she interprets with a very seductive mixture of seriousness and childish mischief.
