Mary Evans Watching Snake-hips Johnson at the Cafe de Paris 12548386

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Picture No	12548386
Date	1940
Description	Watching Snake-hips Johnson at the Cafe de Paris
Details	Impression by Feliks Topolski for The Sketch magazine in their regular series on Cabaraets of Wartime London, of Kenrick Reginald Hijmans Johnson (1914 – 1941), known as Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, jazz band leader and dancer. He was a leading figure in black British music of the 1930s. He and his band had a residency at the Café de Paris. He was killed, along with 33 other people, when the club was directly hit by a bomb during the Blitz on 8 March 1941.
Source	Illustration by Feliks Topolski for 'The Sketch', 7 February 1940, page 172
Credit	© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
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