ABSTRACT
The details of Josh’s schedule for the late 1940s are not easily pieced together, especially fifty years after the fact. When he and Bill finished their tour in Los Angeles at the end of 1947, he sold the car and flew back to New York, arriving four days after the birth of his youngest child, a fourth daughter, named Judith. His first job back home was as a special guest of the vaudeville stars Paul Draper and Larry Adler in their annual children’s Christmas show at the New York City Center. After that, his comings and goings are hard to trace with any degree of accuracy. There were frequent shows in New York or in New Jersey or Philadelphia, regular trips to Chicago and Detroit, and annual crosscountry tours, but the surviving records are only the tip of the iceberg. Whereas Josh’s first trip to any town was news, the fact that he was back six months later might not be, so the newspaper files cannot be counted on, and neither the Whites nor the people involved in his booking and management have kept records of his appearances.
