aug 12, 1974 - Opal Enagement

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I stopped to study a grainy but glamorous black-and-white portrait of Stephanie St. Clair, the formidable “Queenie” of Harlem, I and to read the French on a 1974 flyer announcing an engagement by Opal Jewel, lachanteuse fascinante. Underneath those words was an illustration that reminded me of a Toulouse-Lautrec sketch, the lines of a woman with twisting lips and hips, a round bare head, gloves up to her elbows.

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