06-03 TABLE of CONTENTS:
Le Jazz Hot
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by Gloria Martin.
Le Jazz Hot was U.S. Expatriate Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker, the very popular Parisian chanteuse
known as "Le Jazz Hot," was a heroine of French resistance in
WWII. She was born 06-03-1906 in the U.S. but moved to France because of
bigotry in her native country.
She received Legion d'Honneur and the rarer
Medaille de la Resistance from French President Charles de Gaulle
for her work during World War II on behalf of France. She acted as a courier
when she toured North Africa and other places as she sang and performed
for Allied troops.
She adopted 19 children, all from different nationalities.
In later life when her money ran out and she was evicted from her home
in France, Princess Grace of Monaco (formerly Grace Kelly of Philadelphia
and Hollywood) gave her a villa in Monaco and financed her new act Josephine
'75 to celebrate her 50 years in Paris.
She died in her sleep after 14 performances.
After WWII she had returned to the U.S. to try again
but faced such racial discrimination for her act at the Stork Club that
she returned to France where she was an honored entertainer and admired
hero.
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06-03 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and EVENTS
DIED 06-03-1877, Elizabeth Fires Lummis Ellet, U.S. author and historian
who used primary and direct research for her monumental three-volume Women
of the American Revolution (1848), and the Pioneers of the American
West (1852) as well as other books about women.
Her work is out of favor
except in feminist circles because she is accused of being a "gossip."
What is an historian
except a gossip?
Her books give rare insights
into the women and the eras she examined because she is not bogged down
in the cultural viewpoint of historians that women were superfluous.
B. 06-03-1898, Rosa Clotilde Cecilia Maria del Carmen Chacel - Spanish
writer who broke with the "Generation of 1927" to maintain
a more balanced style of narration rather than depending on unusual presentations.
Chacel studied painting
and sculpture in Madrid.
B. 06-03-1906, Mildred Edie Brady - U.S. editor, journalist,
and consumer rights advocate who became a recognized expert on the New
York advertising scene before taking over in 1958 as a editorial director
and senior editor of Consumer Reports.
B. 06-03-1911, Jean Harlow - the original blond sex-queen of Hollywood
who was haunted by a chaotic private life. She died when when her mother,
as an abiding by Christian Scientist, refused to send her to a hospital
for kidney failure. Her kidneys had been injured by a former husband who
then shot himself.
Her persona in the movies
was a wise- cracking blond bombshell with a heart of gold.
B. 06-03-1916, Gloria Martin - Seattle author and militant socialist-feminist
who attempted to weld the two into one movement through Radical Women (1967).
The working mother of eight, she fought for poor women, women of color,
abortion rights, etc., in an unabashed manner that called for women to
train and organize to get their needs taken care of.
B. 06-03-1919, Elizabeth Duncan Koontz - first black president
of U.S. National Education Association, 1968-69, and director of the Women's
Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor.
B. 06-03-1924, Colleen Dewhurst, throaty-voiced Canadian-born American
actor in film, stage, and television. CD was particularly noted
for her interpretations of Eugene O'Neill's works. She won the 1974 Tony
for her work in Moon for the Misbegotten and the 1961 Tony for her
role in All the Way Home.
She is, however, best
known to TV viewers as Murphy Brown's mother Avery and as Marilla Cuthbert
in the Green Gables plays.
B. 06-03-1944, Martha Clarke - U.S. choreographer and dancer
who describes her work as "moving paintings."
B. 06-03-1954, Sharon Matola - U.S.-born founder and director
of the noted Belize Zoo and Tropical Educational Center. She started the
zoo to earn money to feed a number of animals abandoned in Belize by a
wildlife photographer.
Event 06-03-1972: Sally J. Priesant is ordained as the first woman
rabbi in the United States. She is only the second woman rabbi in the
recorded history of Judaism.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
MARTIN, GLORIA:
"We have to fight for
survival issues--better pay, benefits, abortion rights, child care. But
then we have to go further. We have to change the system, because as long
as the system is the same, we'll be fighting all our lives for the same
thing....When people have had enough, revolution can happen suddenly."
-- Gloria Martin (see above).
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