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Picture?[edit]

Can we get a picture? --Masssiveego 07:16, 6 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Bricky?[edit]

Where was this article stolen from?Shemp Howard, Jr. (talk) 23:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is Bricktop an African American[edit]

It's my understanding that Bricktop was an African American. Yet, this very salient fact is not mentioned.Shemp Howard, Jr. (talk) 23:10, 23 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Cafe Society section[edit]

Can the claims about Ms. Smith and Josephine Baker be accepted as true when the source comes from an author who admitted, at the front of his biography,(p. xvii) that he "hated" Josephine Baker? I think the uncorroborated sentence should be removedCatherinejarvis (talk) 20:24, 26 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

another source[edit]

Much of the information about her is already here here but it contains more information about her time in Vancouver, including the story about breaking her leg (during a melee involving Scandinavian loggers in the jazz bar of the Patricia Hotel.Skookum1 (talk) 05:28, 28 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Miss Otis[edit]

Added a 'citation needed' for the assertion that Cole Porter wrote "Miss Otis Regrets" for Ms. Smith. The page for the song calls this a myth. 60.241.114.73 (talk) 02:49, 18 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]