Josephine Baker performs in Paris in 1931

Title card: "Gay colored star steps out in Paris, Josephine Baker performs at French charity fete before President Doumergue and host of notables" / With chorus girls and boys in pith helmets and Bermuda shorts stand by as Baker arrives on the large wheel-shaped stage platform wearing a towering feathered headdress; she launches into a song / President Gaston Doumergue enjoys the show seated in an elaborate box as a woman peers through opera glasses / Baker finishes her song, bows, takes off her feathered skirt and starts an energetic, athletic shimmy and does a split / Right profiles of audience members enjoying the show / A pan of the cavernous theater with electric lights / An elevated view of the audience enjoying the show / A wide shot of the stage, Baker, and chorus dancers dancing as confetti drops