Teddy Brown and dance instructresses at Kate Meyrick's clubs
Teddy Brown, popular band leader during the inter-war years, and a regular at Kate Meyrick's 43 Club, pictured with the club's dance hostesses or instructresses. Kate Evelyn Ma Meyrick (1875 -1933), an Irish business woman and Queen of the London nightclub scene. She ran "43", a late-night jazz club at 43 Gerrard Street in Soho, was prosecuted several times for breaching licensing laws and went to prison for bribing policemen to ignore these breaches. Her book Secrets of the 43 was banned on its publication in 1933. Three of her daughters married peers of the realm
Picture No
13689718
Media ID
47099919
Size
5463px x 3757px
(2.9MB)
Credit
Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Unattributed photograph in Secrets of the 43' by Kate Meyrick
Date
c.1928
