**FILE**Performer Josephine Baker strikes a pose during her Ziegfeld Follies performance of "The Conga" on the Winter Garden Theater stage in New York, Feb. 11, 1936. An exhibit,"Josephine Baker: Image and Icon," opens Friday, April 28, 2006, at the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, where she was born 100 years ago this June. The free exhibit highlights the career of the black entertainer, who left a segregated United States in the '20s to become an international superstar and the toast of Paris. (AP Photo)