The Enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 192?-1930, 1927-07-01
Former Chorus Girl
WEEDS Italian Count
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Salary $1,000 q Week


Salary $4,000 a Week
II Is said that the salary of the
actress at the Moulin Rouge is $50
daily, and that her weekly income
totals $4,000 weekly. She owns her
own chateau and is surrounded by
all the luxuries known to the
wealthy "a striking contrast to her
lean days in America where she re-
ceived $25 and less weekly as a
chorus girls.
Shuttle Along
Miss Baker attracted some little
notice as end girl in "The Planta-
ton" Miller and Lyles' Shuttle
Along" Sissle and Blake's Chocolate
Dandies" during the seasons of
1923-24. She sailed with Mrs. Caro-
line Dudley's group of entertainers
for Vienna, Berlin and other Euro
pean countries early in 1925. One
of her first triumphs abroad was in
n concert on the s. s. Berengaria
en- route to France in october 1925.
Passengers on the steamer declared
her the greatest exponent of the
Charleston.
DFtsthS Up
When the revue came to Paris the
white producer was unable to keep
the company together and Josephine
Baker went into vaudeville with
Louis Douglass as dancing partner.
She opened at the Moulin Rouge in
April, 1926, featuring the songs,
"Skeedle Um", II Want To Yodei",
and charleston Feet" The songs,
written for her by Spencer Williams,
American composer, were instant
hits. Her eccentric dancing also
won the ready approval of the music
hall patrons and she became the
idol of Partisan theatre-goers.
Josephine Baker Dolls
Public acclaim has been so great
that Josephine Baker dolls, toilet
articles and novelties have been
among the best sellers IN the Paris
ian marts. White Americans return
ed home and told how the former
Harlem girl was the star of a pro-
duction of which all the other actors
were white.
40" startled Paris by wearing
nothing on the stage at one per-
Torrance. On another occasion she
was dressed in bunch of bananas.
The idol was born in st. Louis
June 8, 1906. Her entrance into
theatrical work was not regarded as
anything unusual, her father being
drummer in a theatre in her nat
i've city. Her first stage experience
was with the late Rob Russells
Dixie Steppers." In 1924 she join
ed the plantation Revue" atop the
! Winter Garden in New York.
The marriage was confirmed Tues
| day when the American consular
records we're examined. So far as 1t
| is known, Miss Baker is the only
American colored girl married into
| European nobility.
Count Ardent Lover
Count Pepito is a neat appearing
young man who wears a monocle.
He lives in Rome and was formerly
employed in the Italian Ministry of
Finance.
When interviewed concerning the
marriage the bride said:
81 met him just nine months ago
in the Montmartre Club. No 1t
wasn't love at first sight. When
heard that he was q count / was
thrilled. He came to see me at the
theatre three nights after and ask
ed me was l married?' I told him
mo- and he came right back with a
| proposal. OF course, I didn't take
him seriously, but he sure was in
earnest and the next time he came
back l let my feelings slip and dis
covered that I loved him."
/ Looked Him Up
1t is humorously reported that the
clever actressI recalling how many
noblemen had been revealed as i'm
posters, made sure of his lineage be-
i fore accepting the proposal. She
wore a 16-carat diamond ring at the
time of the interview and stated
that 1t had been given to her along
with many Of the nobleman's family
! jewels.
When asked for his version of the
betrothal, Count Albertini said:
II saw Josephine the first time at
the 'Folies Bergere' and was smit-
ten with her amber beauty. immed-
lately. She is a wonderful girl and
| am proud to be her husband. We
are going to make motion pictures
shortly. ] am lieutenant in the
Arditi Corps" Zone of Italys crack
regiments).
In New York Harlemites who
knew her in her stage days In the
United States, declared that she for
merly had a husband there, Walter
Baker, a pullman porter. The report
could not be substantiated.