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...were a highly literate and sophisticated bunch just waiting to graduate to Europe, where none of us had been--but thinking of James Baldwin, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, Josephine Baker and Bricktop, we knew we had to have a Paris sequence in our lives. AIDS was not here yet so the possibilities seemed endless...
...nearly 70 years, whose unsurpassed ability to turn even the most banal tune into a timeless vignette of love and loss delighted generations of supper-club audiences; of heart disease; in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in England of a white English mother and black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs as Fly Me to the Moon and While We 're Young with consummate phrasing...
DIED. Ada Beatrice Queen Victoria Louise Virginia Smith, 89, legendary red-haired singer, entertainer and nightclub owner better known to generations of café society on two continents as Bricktop; in New York City. Born in West Virginia to a black father and a mother who was part Irish, part black, freckle-faced Bricktop began her career in Harlem, then moved to Paris. Cole Porter wrote Miss Otis Regrets for her. John Steinbeck sent a taxiful of roses to apologize for getting drunk in her place. Hemingway, Fitzgerald and the Duke of Windsor were regular visitors to her ultrachic Place...
...Bricktop--Lulu White, 3 Appleton St., Boston...
...Bricktop--Lulu White...