Ink signatures, “King Gillette, Vienna, May 18th/27,” adding a sketch of a Gillette logo above his signature, and “Josephine Baker, Feb 4/28, ‘Wien,’” on an off-white 4.75 x 7 sheet. Sheet is also signed by Ernst Krenek, who adds a five-bar AMQS from ‘Johnny Strikes Up the Band,’ his jazz opera influenced by Josephine Baker’s Revue negre; folk singer Adam Muller; and conductor Hans Knappertsbusch. Scattered light toning and some ink flecks to beginning of musical quote, otherwise fine condition. RR Auction COA.
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