Happy Christmas to all my Flickr pals : Grosvenor House : Christmas and New Year Programme 1931 : first fold
A Happy Christmas 2024 to all my Flickr friends.
The 1931 programme of festivities held at the then relatively new Grosvenor House Hotel that had opened, on the site of the original Grosvenor House on Park Lane, in 1929. It was to become one of London's premier hotels. As can be seen from the folding leaflet scenes of great gaiety were to be had along with the Children's Sunshine Cabaret, Frakson (the man with a hundred cigarettes, why I do not know) and dancing to the Jack Harris Grosvenor House Dance Band. All yours for 25/-.
The folder is diecut so that the cover exposes the dance band seen in the full illustration. The lettering aims for a rather gothic German style. The very busy artwork is signed; it is much in the style of Fortunino Matania but the signature may be Norman Mansbridge? The latter is best known as a cartoonist but he'd working in advertising in the ealry 1930s.
Happy Christmas to all my Flickr pals : Grosvenor House : Christmas and New Year Programme 1931 : first fold
A Happy Christmas 2024 to all my Flickr friends.
The 1931 programme of festivities held at the then relatively new Grosvenor House Hotel that had opened, on the site of the original Grosvenor House on Park Lane, in 1929. It was to become one of London's premier hotels. As can be seen from the folding leaflet scenes of great gaiety were to be had along with the Children's Sunshine Cabaret, Frakson (the man with a hundred cigarettes, why I do not know) and dancing to the Jack Harris Grosvenor House Dance Band. All yours for 25/-.
The folder is diecut so that the cover exposes the dance band seen in the full illustration. The lettering aims for a rather gothic German style. The very busy artwork is signed; it is much in the style of Fortunino Matania but the signature may be Norman Mansbridge? The latter is best known as a cartoonist but he'd working in advertising in the ealry 1930s.