It was in the 1960s. I accompanied my father, Guy des Cars, to the Olympia. He knew Josephine Baker well and admired her. The room was packed. Once again, Joséphine, in her sixties energetic, unleashed the enthusiasm of the public that evening when she attacked (it was ritual) her famous song, whose music is by Vincent Scotto, who had created it for her. in 1931, and which had become his call sign:
I have two loves / My country and Paris.
But, in truth, beyond the admiration, we were embarrassed because she was obliged to often quote a famous brand of beer while passing in the room and showing a bottle…
The ebony Venus of the Roaring Twenties, which, on October 7, 1926, had amazed the spectators of the
Revue nègre
at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées where she had appeared almost naked, a banana belt at her waist, her eyes sparkling and slicked back hair, glorified by the poster by Paul Colin, was, forty years later, in the grip of serious difficulties
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