Word: baker
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...family of the late Prince Scipione Borghesi is both Royal and Papal. There are, in fact, dozens, scores, hundreds of Italian noblemen whole titles are genuine and venerable beyond reproach. Therefore, it was not surprising that in Paris last week, famed Negress Black Bottom, and Charleston performer Miss Josephine Baker, once of Harlem, now mistress of a Montmartre night club, should have announced her marriage to Count Pepito di Albertini of Rome. Few of Miss Baker's race would have kept the secret as long as she said she had kept it-20 days-and when the announcement...
...Josephine Baker . . . born in St. Louis. . . arose from the obscurity of a Missouri town to be acclaimed the 'Darling of Paris.' Several years ago . . . when she was a mere girl . . . the Courier . . . remarked that she would...
...asking: "Who is Count Pepito di Albertini?" Since the Parisian police keep a very careful record of all strangers, it was to M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe that reporters turned. They received a reply which was suavity itself: "Our records show that this gentleman came with Miss Baker from America, three years ago, as her manager. Their addresses in Paris have always been the same, although this residence has changed several times. The gentleman has never claimed a title other than 'Monsieur...
...Church." They heard Retiring President Charles E. Heitman declare that their church was "fulfilling its mission as a healing church"; elected him business manager of the Christian Science Publishing Society; elected Mrs. Ella W. Hoag of Bropkline, Mass., new president of their group. She is a disciple of Mary Baker Patterson Glover Eddy...
...Stevens, Miss Eleanor Frothingham; G. W. Estey, Miss Martha Baker; G. Wright, Miss Elizabeth Wright; R. D. McMullan, Miss Margaret Hastings; T. O. Kingsbury, Miss Elizabeth Kingsbury; R. M. Purinton, Miss Emily Stevens...