Watching Snake-hips Johnson at the Cafe de Paris

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Watching Snake-hips Johnson at the Cafe de Paris

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 CafÚáñe 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. Date: 1940

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