Lot 40
Autograph Album.- Melzer (Rudy, restaurant & hotel employee at the Meurice, Paris; The Savoy, London and The St Regis, NYC) Autograph album, signatures including: Charles Chaplin, Salvador Dali, Gladys Cooper, Noel Coward, Wallis Windsor, Edward VIII, Rex Harrison, Truman Capote, Nelson Eddy, Tennessee Williams, John Steinbeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, Igor Stravinsky etc., together c. 300 signatures, original vellum, Berlin & New York, 1936-56.
Hammer Price: £4,200
Description
Autograph Album.- Melzer (Rudy, served an 8 year apprenticeship at The Meurice in Paris, and an occasional summer at a sister hotel on the Cote D’Azur, worked at The Savoy in London, worked at the Horcher in Berlin, coming to America he was Henri Soulé’s right hand man at Le Pavillon in 1942-43, and again when he returned from WWII in 1946, for 29 years managed the restaurants at The Hotel St Regis on Fifth Avenue and nine years at The Colony Club, a private club on Park Avenue) Autograph album, signatures including: Charles Chaplin (with ink sketch of the Tramp); Salvador Dali, Gladys Cooper, Noel Coward, Merle Oberon (Korda), Arthur Rubinstein, Charles Laughton, Wallis Windsor, Edward VIII (as Prince Edward), Otto Preminger, Ann Todd, Marlene Dietrich, Rex Harrison, Margot Fonteyn, Sacheverell Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell (with poem), Benny Goodman, Truman Capote, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish, Constance Collier, Nelson Eddy, Joan Fontaine, Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Tennessee Williams, Richard Strauss, Anita Loos, Fred Zinneman, John Steinbeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Ashton, Igor Stravinsky, Carl Sandburg, Cyril Ritchard (played Captain Hook on Broadway), Jose Ferrer (with sketch), Benny Goodman with notes etc., together c. 300 signatures, many with inscriptions, on c. 215pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original vellum, lettered direct "R.M." on upper cover, slightly soiled, 170 x 140mm., Berlin & New York, 1936-56.
Description
Autograph Album.- Melzer (Rudy, served an 8 year apprenticeship at The Meurice in Paris, and an occasional summer at a sister hotel on the Cote D’Azur, worked at The Savoy in London, worked at the Horcher in Berlin, coming to America he was Henri Soulé’s right hand man at Le Pavillon in 1942-43, and again when he returned from WWII in 1946, for 29 years managed the restaurants at The Hotel St Regis on Fifth Avenue and nine years at The Colony Club, a private club on Park Avenue) Autograph album, signatures including: Charles Chaplin (with ink sketch of the Tramp); Salvador Dali, Gladys Cooper, Noel Coward, Merle Oberon (Korda), Arthur Rubinstein, Charles Laughton, Wallis Windsor, Edward VIII (as Prince Edward), Otto Preminger, Ann Todd, Marlene Dietrich, Rex Harrison, Margot Fonteyn, Sacheverell Sitwell, Osbert Sitwell, Edith Sitwell (with poem), Benny Goodman, Truman Capote, Joseph Cotten, Lillian Gish, Constance Collier, Nelson Eddy, Joan Fontaine, Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Tennessee Williams, Richard Strauss, Anita Loos, Fred Zinneman, John Steinbeck, Frank Lloyd Wright, Frederick Ashton, Igor Stravinsky, Carl Sandburg, Cyril Ritchard (played Captain Hook on Broadway), Jose Ferrer (with sketch), Benny Goodman with notes etc., together c. 300 signatures, many with inscriptions, on c. 215pp. excluding blanks, slightly browned, original vellum, lettered direct "R.M." on upper cover, slightly soiled, 170 x 140mm., Berlin & New York, 1936-56.
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