Baby Esther Is Josephine Baker's Youngest Competitor (1929)
Josephine Baker has gained competition in Paris. A new black star has appeared at the music hall heaven. A very small star still mowing - 110 centimeters long and her age - eight and a half-year. She dances in a large music hall in the avenue Wagram; and her dancing resembles parodies of Josephine Baker dances.
In the meantime, "Little Esther," as her name is, Josephine has never seen, even never heard of, she has come from America, where she already was a celebrity. "The New World knows everyone as the dancer, who invented and launched a new and Charleston: the "tap-Charleston", with which she came for the first time in Buenos Aires. In America has "Little Esther" her own jazz band, which accompanies her everywhere where she will perform, but unfortunately she did not bring her orchestra to Paris, which is why mom has to commit a new bag of "bags" for her. Her manager, Mr. Bolton, "discovered" the little star when she was only four and a half years old. He shakes her dancing to her own idea and never put her under the direction of a dance master. also mentally, because she has never been to school and has never had any lessons, but in Paris she behaves like a little "vedette", she knows best to receive reporters, chats charmingly and pollinates her black snout with a ocher powder.
She keeps two masters and a secretary, because she receives a pile of letters in the afternoon.
The black star has a busy life. She has to make visits with her photographer, and especially at her fashion house because a well-known Parisian children's couturier has offered nsar a dozen japons and that means a lot of things have to be done! '
It is the first time that "Little Esther" has arrived in Europe, she thinks that Paris is a very pleasant city, she says, and she loves the Parisian public - that is indeed the case, the Parisian audience also thinks "Little Esther" is the most charming, the most charming and a race really a dancer. Her success in the City of Light is insured.
In the meantime, "Little Esther," as her name is, Josephine has never seen, even never heard of, she has come from America, where she already was a celebrity. "The New World knows everyone as the dancer, who invented and launched a new and Charleston: the "tap-Charleston", with which she came for the first time in Buenos Aires. In America has "Little Esther" her own jazz band, which accompanies her everywhere where she will perform, but unfortunately she did not bring her orchestra to Paris, which is why mom has to commit a new bag of "bags" for her. Her manager, Mr. Bolton, "discovered" the little star when she was only four and a half years old. He shakes her dancing to her own idea and never put her under the direction of a dance master. also mentally, because she has never been to school and has never had any lessons, but in Paris she behaves like a little "vedette", she knows best to receive reporters, chats charmingly and pollinates her black snout with a ocher powder.
She keeps two masters and a secretary, because she receives a pile of letters in the afternoon.
The black star has a busy life. She has to make visits with her photographer, and especially at her fashion house because a well-known Parisian children's couturier has offered nsar a dozen japons and that means a lot of things have to be done! '
It is the first time that "Little Esther" has arrived in Europe, she thinks that Paris is a very pleasant city, she says, and she loves the Parisian public - that is indeed the case, the Parisian audience also thinks "Little Esther" is the most charming, the most charming and a race really a dancer. Her success in the City of Light is insured.
