Word: reagon
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...Shuffle Along. In Philadelphia, fame came to her one evening when she lost her shoe, did an impromptu cooch dance with her eyes crossed. It brought her back to New York and a two-year job in the Broadway company of the same show. In 1925 a Mrs. Reagon, vaudeville booking agent, offered Josephine $250 a week to go to Paris. With the exception of a disastrous attempt to reinvade Broadway in 1936, Josephine Baker has remained in Europe ever since. Parisians loved her shrill, piping soprano, her lacquered hair and extravagant clothes, her habit of dancing nude...