Midnight Follies, Hotel Metropole, London 1927

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Midnight Follies, Hotel Metropole, London 1927This is the play bill and supper menu from the show called The Midnight Follies at the London Metropole hotel in 1927. The review included the famous American dancers Rosita and Ramone in their first London appearance. Supper was very expensive, and offered only the best champagne and foods. The menu cover shows an elegantly dressed lady being kissed by the moon as she leaves the hotel. Courtesy Lou Greenstein Gallery quality Gicle print on natural

but it was a mere shell

The hotel's most famous guest – the billionaire businessman Howard Hughes – came to stay in 1966

Le Restaurant Français in the French Pavilion was the most renowned of the 112 restaurants at the 1939-40 World's Fair in New York

the baby shark steak in its highchair and the rather sinister-looking catfish – every illustration shows the creative mastery of the artist

at the tender age of four

Joan Blondell

politicians and sports heroes

making it last as long as possible

000 pieces of china an hour

Hence the restaurant’s name and décor – there are many pictures and paintings of smoking dogs

this has the feel of a historical document

Source: Private Collection