Drum Magazine social history photographs, Ghana edition 408

Meet Mister Snob – Dick Everett. Dressed to kill, wiping his forehead with handkerchief, despite the heat he goes for a big lunch and orders only the best on the menu. Dick Everett, a draughtsman and artist of long standing. What a man, he admitted he acted big, talked big, drank bit, ate big. And he defended it. It was not until much later, in the naturalness of his home, that I found out Dick was just putting on an act, that it was all part of his philosophy of "let's make merry, for after death there is no more merriment."