Josephine Baker

[Durium]

1. I'd like to have the dates of Josephine Baker's revue touring through Europe and Egypt between October 1933 (London) and her return in Paris around spring 1934. I know the revue was in Amsterdam Dec. 14th 1933. Where were her 16 Baker Boys on Dec. 17th?

2. Can someone give me the names of the 16 Baker Boys present during that tour and can someone give me a (scan from) a program.

Keep swinging

Hans Koert

El redescubrimiento de Oscar Aleman project

[couw]

Do a search here: http://kranten.kb.nl/index2.html for dutch newspaper articles of the era. At least you can paste together that part of the tour. Only the files of Het Vaderland cover 1933.

Het Vaderland of dec. 22 1933 mentions that the tour that was planned to last until dec. 31, was suddenly broken off due to illness.

The edition of dec. 4 1933 mentions the tour schedule (see below). Maybe you can find more info from the other articles.

[Durium]

Thanks Couw,

Great !!

First of all I'm very happy with the sites where I can find online Dutch newspapers. This is a great source to find information.

Thanks for the tour dates. As the article suggests they played from 14th up to the 18th of December 1933 in different venues through the country. Then they have two days off and on the 21st they perform again in The Hague.

I do have a private recording by Josephine Baker en haar 16 Baker Boys, recorded on Dec. 19th. That's one of her days off.

I wonder ...... where was this recorded. Could it have been a radio program?

Is there an online archive where I can find if a radio program was sceduled? Due to the critics in the news paper I don't think the program was transmitted.

Thanks again, Couw !!

El redescubrimiento de Oscar Aleman project

[couw]

if you know the exact date and have some hunches, you could try your luck with the national archives in The Hague. It's no google there though and you really need to know where to look.

With respect to online resources they did do a nice job with their photo archives: http://beeldbank.nationaalarchief.nl/

If you type in Josephine Baker there, you will get 195 photos covering the post war years. The people at the Archives are very friendly also in questions of clearing copyright on these.

While you're browsing old Newspapers, de Groene Amsterdammer has the archives of De Groene from 1877 to 1940 online here: http://www.groene.nl/zylab/

No mention of the 1933 tour, but at least some interesting looking articles.

Maybe the dutch jazz archives can help you with the details on your radio show? http://www.jazzarchief.nl

[Durium]

Thanks Couw for your suggestions.

I'll post the results later on my website.

If you want to be informed send me your email address and i'll forward you the news letter.