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Polish Tango: Henryk Gold Orch. & Eugeniusz Bodo, 1934

Eugeniusz Bodo & Orkiestra "Columbia" pod dyr. Henryka Golda - Ja mam czas, ja poczekam (I Have Time, I Can Wait) Tango z teatru "Stara Banda" (Tango from the theatre "Old Gang") (Mieczysław Mierzejewski/ Emanuel Schlechter) Columbia 1934 ----------------------------------- Eugeniusz BODO (né Bohdan Eugène Junod) born in 1899 in Łódź? Genève? His father Swiss citizen - was a businesman, owner of cinema theaters in Łódź - it maent for young Eugène his total fascination with the Xth Muse. He started performing as a boy, on a little stage of his fathers nickelodeon „Urania" in Łódź. In later years, his distinguished mothers insistence to study medicine, made him run away from home and settle on his own in Poznań, where in 1917 he started to perform as a dancer and singer in the theatre „Apollo". In next yers he returned to Łódź where his family finally accepted the choice of his ife career and after two seasons, since 1920 he started appearing on the stages of Warsaw theatres, starting from the already famous revue theatre „Quo Pro Quo". Through the whole 1920s he performed in best Warsaw light-Muse theatres: „Perskie Oko", „Morskie Oko" or the operetta „Nowości" (Novelties). In 1930 he started his great career as the most popular Polish film actor of the 1930s when he appeared in the sound melodrama „A Dangerous Romance". And then came the whole series of the best and never-to be forgot music comedies with dozens of Bodo's hits, composed for him by Henryk Wars, Jerzy Petersburski, Roman Palestr, Alfred Scher. He impersonified the charme, elegance and the light kind of a stage humour typical for the salon-comedies of the 1930s, throughout the world. Never the less, Bodo's unique and very original trade mark was his sparkling intelligence and a certain kind of a self-distance in his acting, a trace of an irony, which make many of his performances quite modern even for a contemporary wiever. In 1932 he was announced by the film magazine „Kino" The King of Polish Actors, and four years later, in 1936 - The King Of Polish Fashions (as the first Polish male star launching the tweed „Old England" mens jackets). One of his sensational comedy roles was the „Polish Mae West" - Eugeniusz Bodo in a womens disguise singing and dancing Henryk Wars' foxtrott „Sex Appeal" in the music comedy „Piętro wyżej" (Upstairs; 1937). In Spring 1939 he opened in his own cafe-restaurant „Bodo" - an immediate success and a meeting point for the snobistic Warsaw society. Unfortunately, the 1st of September 1939 and the German attack on Poland meant the end of the King Of Life and the birth of a Martyr. In the first days, Eugeniusz Bodo stayed in a bombed Warsaw, to leave it before the fall of the defence - never to see it again. As thousands of Warsaw refugees, he wandered to Lwow, where he met some of his pre-war colleagues: Mieczysław Fogg, Adam Aston and the bandleaders: Henryk Wars, Jerzy Petersburski or Jerzy Gert. Alas, on 17 September 1939 Lwów was captured by the Soviets after their attack on Poland, according to Hitler-Stalin Pact of the division of Poland from August 1939. The newly established communist Peoples Soviet of Lwów started registering all professional groups of the citizens - including artists - to make preliminary selection of the Polish intelligentia, to be deported - as it soon became clear - in transports of the dozens of thousands people, from Lwow to the Gulag Archipelago. This first selection left Bodo intact. He, Aston, Bogucki, Fogg, Wars, Petersburski, Gert and a few others were even allowed to „continue their artisctic activity". So, the „Tea-Jazz" Polish dance band was established, with Wars and Petersburski as leaders, and Bodo as one of the singers. They were so goood, they got a permission to tour around, becoming soon one of the most popular jazz bands in the Soviet Union. (Some recordings are stall available among the rarities - Noginskij Zavod label - with „Tea Jazz" and Eugeniusz Bodo, who is singing his pre-war Polish hits, in Russian). In June 1941, when he happened to be in Lwów again, Bodo was arrested by NKWD (Soviet secret police). His Swiss passport did not help him any more: as „a spy" and „enemy of the Soviet Union" he was sent to the gulag near Kirov. He died of a cold and hunger 2 years later, on 7 Oct. 1943. His mother who was in Warsaw believed, until her own death during the Warsaw Uprising in 1944, that her son „is alive somewhere in USSR" and „he will come back soon". The communist propaganda in Poland after 1945 put a ban on the facts about the death of the famous prewar movie star. Official version in the film encyclopaedias, almanach etc. was: „tragic death from the hands of nazi occupiers of Lwow, during WWII".