A Blackbird Pie
Caricatures by Hynes of performers in the popular revue, Blackbirds, at the Pavilion Theatre in 1926-7. Central is the star performer Florence Mills. The Blackbirds Revue cast was entirely African-American. The show was first performed in Harlem, then at the Ambassadeurs in Paris in the summer of 1926, before being brought to London by Charles Cochran, opening in September 1926. The Prince of Wales led society who flocked to see it - he admitted to going eleven times
Picture No
50129749
Media ID
50129749
Size
4044px x 5694px
(69MB)
Credit
Illustrated London News/Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Illustration by Hynes in The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News', 5 March 1927, page 521
Date
1927
