Paul Robeson - HUAC Hearing (1956)

Listen to Paul Robeson HUAC hearing June 12 1956 by User 680083242 #np on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-680083242/paul-robeson-huac-hearing-june-12-1956

Ruth Bayton's return to Europe (1933)

French press acknowledging Ruth Bayton's return to Europe on the SS Lafayette after appearing for several months in New York.

Le Havre, France - February 5, 1933

Ford SEBAR Company (1931-1947)

Ford SEBAR Company

Located at the "Casa-Alba" on the Strada A.I. Cuza in Craiova, Romania.

Barbu Neamtu - 1935

(Second from left) 

*Husband to Afro-American entertainer, Zaidee Jackson 

Romania's Ford Dealership

Romanian engineer and businessman, Barbu Neamtu {1907-19??}, established along with his brother Sebastian in 1931, "SEBAR", the Craiova branch of the Ford Dealership House.

With funding from the Bancii Comertului, the dealership was located at the 'Casa Alba' on the Strada A.I. Cuza. After 1934, besides producing automobiles like its Bucharest counterpart, the company also catered towards the Romanian peasants, producing trucks and tractors.

To help promote the company, Barbu participated in numerous auto-races across Romania, Croatia, Switzerland and most frequently in Monte Carlo.

After the start of World War II and King Carol's new political policies, the SEBAR company was soon producing and offering repairs to military vehicles for Nazi Germany after March 1940. That policy was later offered towards the Soviet Union after Russian troops entered Romania in August 1944.

Eventually the company was suspended permanently in the fall of 1947, due to lack of supplies being exported from the US after the war.

Elsie Bayron's European Tour

Budapest Royal Hotel - 1936/37

After five years of performing in Spain, Elsie Bayron fled to Paris in the fall of 1936 with her boyfriend, Dominican bandleader Napoleon Zayas. Afterwards, they joined with Benny Peyton's orchestra for A European Tour, appearing in Holland, Hungary, Turkey, Scandinavia and Egypt. 

Elsie & Napoleon married & returned to Spain upon the outbreak of WWII.

Rosa Negra & Molinet - Zürich (1939)

Francisco Molinet & Rosa Negra performing at the Cabaret Montparnasse in Switzerland, accompanied with two new partners, shortly after escaping the civil war in Spain. After touring Europe & South America, the Cuban couple returned to their adopted country of Spain in 1940, despite being controlled now by Franco's new regime.

Zárate & Paquíta - 1954/1959

Samuel B. Zárate & Paquíta entertaining at Clingmann's Supper Club (1954) and Hotel Benton's Lamplighter Lounge (1959). Both located in Oregon.