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Draft:Walter Batie

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Walter Batie was a dancer.[1][2] He performed comedy dance routines.[3][4]

He performed in the tap dance duo Batie and Foster.[5] They reportedly hung out at the Lenox Club with other performers.[6] In 1933 they performed at New York City’s Geand Opera House.[7]

Shows

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  • Blackbirds of 1934[8]
  • Taylor’s Harlem Revue[9]

References

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  1. ^ Lemon, Mark; Mayhew, Henry; Taylor, Tom; Brooks, Shirley; Burnand, Francis Cowley; Seaman, Owen (1934). "Punch".
  2. ^ "Theatre World". 1935.
  3. ^ "Dancing Times". 1937.
  4. ^ Allen, Walter C. (1973). "Hendersonia: The Music of Fletcher Henderson and His Musicians".
  5. ^ Egan, Bill (6 December 2019). African American Entertainers in Australia and New Zealand: A History, 1788-1941. McFarland. ISBN 9781476677958.
  6. ^ Mezzrow, Mezz; Wolfe, Bernard (23 February 2016). Really the Blues. New York Review of Books. ISBN 9781590179468.
  7. ^ Sampson, Henry T. (30 October 2013). Blacks in Blackface: A Sourcebook on Early Black Musical Shows. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810883512.
  8. ^ www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_b/blackbirds1934.htm
  9. ^ "Billboard". 26 June 1943.
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