Title:
The secret life of the Savoy / Olivia Williams.
ISBN:
9781643139579
9781643137384
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Pegasus Books, 2021.
©2021
Physical Description:
xii, 323 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Contents:
Introduction -- Preface -- Richard. Curtain up ; Entertainment of a higher order ; 'Light of the future' ; Off on tour ; 'The Hotel de Luxe of the world' ; The carpet quarrel ; 'Everyone who comes, goes away highly pleased' ; Scandals ; Fluctuat nec migrator -- Rupert. Belle Époque ; No sackcloth and ashes ; Rupert's roaring twenties ; Curzon Street Baroque ; A scrum in Mayfair ; An heir and a spare ; Essence de civilisation -- Bridget. Reluctant heiress ; Static in the swinging sixties ; Pickwick and co. ; Bridget hangs on ; Curtain down -- Postscript: Claridge's Restaurant, July 1990.
Summary:
In three generations, the D'Oyly Carte family and London's Savoy Hotel pioneered the idea of the luxury hotel and the modern theater, propelled Gilbert and Sullivan to lasting stardom, made Oscar Wilde a transatlantic celebrity, inspired a P. G. Wodehouse series, and popularized early jazz, electric lights, and Art Deco. Williams follows the history of the iconic Savoy Hotel through three generations of the D'Oyly Carte family. In doing so she brings to life the extraordinary cultural legacy of the most famous hotel in the world. -- adapted from jacket
Corporate Subject:
OCLC Number:
on1255400098
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