I enjoyed Bob Conant's account of roll artist pseudonyms.  I had
a similar disappointment to Karl Ellison's (happily mistaken) over
Pauline Alpert, but in my case over Edythe Baker.

I had always supposed this player to be black -- I don't know why.  The
rolls seem a shade over-arranged but the good ones really romp.  There
was one dismissive mention of her in a jazz book I had as "Edythe Baker
and her night-club pink grand".

But shock, horror, on touring Jim Edwards's Centenary Festival exhibi-
tion of Women Roll Makers cartoons in Aurora public library last April
-- originated, I believe, for an AMICA conference of some years ago --
there was one of Edythe Baker: slim, tricksy, and indubitably white.
The blurb reported her as having moved to London towards the end of her
career and one late roll I have calls her Edythe Baker Donaldson.

Can anyone fill me in with more detail, or direct me to a biography ?

Dan Wilson, London