Ken 'Snakehips' Johnson x2 can be described as one of the first highly successful black popular musicians to gain a following in this country. These photographs, featuring the Emperor's Jazz in the Cafe Florida, were taken in 1937. Four years later in 1941 Johnson was killed when a bomb fell on the Cafe de Paris. He was only twenty-six. The Cafe de Paris incident claimed the lives of a number of prominent entertainers and society figures. Anthony Powell, in his novel The Soldier' Art, the eighth volume of A Dance to the Music of Time, used the Cafe de Paris as a model for the Cafe de Madrid which was also bombed: a young black entertainer puts in a fleeting appearance. In recent years the club has been revived, and what was once the main club room is now the cellar. The ghost of 'Snakehips' has allegedly been sighted there on more than one occasion while renovation work was taking place: it was characteristically elegant in appearance but understandably melancholy in overall demeanour. Perhaps, it is to be hoped, this small tribute might serve to lay 'Snakehips' to rest at long last.