Original poster for a concert of Afro American singer, composer, actor and writer Emmett "Babe" Wallace in Israel in the late 1950s.

The is not dated and with no mention of the venue. The show also included Israeli actress Gita Luka, singer Beno Sharon and Greek singer Eva Kiriakidov.

Wallace is known to have performed in Israeli clubs, hotels and Army installations from 1956-1962.

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96x64 cm, 38x25 inch.

 Creases, small chips, folding lines, minor staining etc.

Emmett "Babe" Wallace is a singer, composer, actor and writer. He has performed in cabarets, musical revues, films and the theater. As a composer and writer, he has produced a voluminous body of musical compositions, poetry, essays and journals. Wallace had a career in cabarets, musical revues, films, and theater in the United States, Canada, France, and Israel.

Emmett "Babe" Wallace's life in the world of the arts began in the 1930s. In the central portion of his career, both in a chronological sense and in terms of professional prominence, Wallace was among the many Afro-American artists forced to seek opportunities abroad. For seventeen years, from 1947 until 1964, he lived the alternating exhilaration and near despair that is the common experience of the artist in exile.

During the 1930s and early 1940s, he worked at clubs and hotels in Canada, Boston, New York City and in the Catskill Mountains. Following a World War II stint in the U.S. Army, Wallace got a three year engagement with the Folies Bergere in Paris (1952-1955). This lengthy contract was a wholly unprecedented experience for an American performer. With the addition of some Hebrew songs, Wallace worked this format in Israeli clubs, hotels and Army installations from 1956-1962. Another brief period on the European continent followed and in 1964 Wallace returned to the United States with a season's contract to perform in the Catskills.

Wallace also appeared in both film and stage plays, again on three continents. Among his films and character roles were: "Stormy Weather", a 1943 Hollywood film starring Lena Horne; the long-running London production of "Anna Lucasta" in 1947-1948; an Israeli film in which he sang one of his own compositions in the 1950s; a Paris production of Edward Albee's "The Death of Bessie Smith" in the early 1960s; in such off-Broadway productions as Eugene Ionesco's "Bald Soprano", and Al Kirk's "Daniel, The Fighting Black Congressman" in the late 1960s. During this latter period he also appeared on television in the series "Our Street".

His archive is with the New York public Library - Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.