(COTTON CLUB.) Bar Mitzvah program for Bernard Stark, son of Herman Stark, part owner of the Cotton Club and agent for Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and others. Photographic portrait. 8vo, original printed stiff blue wrappers with deckled

(COTTON CLUB.) Bar Mitzvah program for Bernard Stark, son of Herman Stark, part owner of the Cotton Club and agent for Cab Calloway, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson and others. Photographic portrait. 8vo, original printed stiff blue wrappers with deckled edges; some light soil. New York, 1939 E400/600 INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Calloway, Robinson, Jim Braddock (former heavyweight champion), Helen Kane (the "boop-boop-a-doop" girl), and Dan Healy (founder and original owner of the Cotton Club, "the place" to be in New York's Harlem). It opened in the Roaring Twenties, at the height of the Harlem Renaissance. By 1936 it seemed hard times would close the place. Herman Stark, successful Broadway producer and agent for Calloway et al., saved the Club, moved it down-town to 7th Avenue and 48th Street, and launched many people in the Club review onto Broadway. This most unusual Bar Mitvah for his son Bernard was held at the new Club.