[2] She became a well-known singer and dancer at Eugene Bullard's club, Le Grand Duc, where she achieved renown and praise.
"[3] Despite her reputation towards white patrons of Le Grand Duc, Hughes writes that outside of the club, Florence was kind and loved by all she worked with.
[3] It is likely that Hughes originated the spelling of Jones' maiden name "Emery" as "Embry" in his autobiography The Big Sea, a mistake which many scholars have repeated since.
Mitchell described her performances as riveting, and she gained further attention when Time magazine published a small excerpt about her beauty and talent, referring to her as having "Ivory-white [teeth], lipstick-red"[4] and recognizing her as an expatriate of both hemispheres in 1927.
[8] 1920s club-goer Ralph Nevill is cited in Tyler Edward Stovall's book Paris Noir: African Americans in the City of Light describing Chez Florence: “Florence’s in the Rue Blanche, a late night resort which occupies the site of an old and charming garden, is crowded from midnight to dawn with revellers who have begun the night at other places.
Such compulsory dancing, of course, produces ludicrous effects, the sight of an old gentleman in spectacles or a fat old South American lady covered with jewellery executing the Charleston, sending everyone into fits of laughter, the sound of which even the strident notes of the jazz band are powerless to drown.”[9]Jones was praised by several African American intellectuals, artists, and musicians, including Hughes, who referred to her as a "Petite, lovely brown vision, the reigning queen of Montmartre after midnight".