Programme for 'The "When We Were Very Young" Ball', in aid of the Brompton Hospital, at the Savoy Hotel, London; containing the cast list of 'Past Bedtime', 'Specially written and arranged by Douglas Byng'. Cover illustration by Stewart Ross.

Author: 
Douglas Byng; Stewart Ross, illustrator [The Brompton Hospital for Consumption]
Publication details: 
Savoy Hotel; 15 January 1930. [Printed by 'Shears, Sydney Street, Chelsea'.]
£28.00
SKU: 7788

12mo bifolium (leaf dimensions 21 x 13 cm): 4 pp. On lightly-aged and creased paper, with a little spotting. Strikingly simple stylised illustration (14 x 9 cm) by Ross on cover, depicting a girl with long blonde hair, large black bow an elongated neck. The 'special appeal' (whose patrons are the king and queen) aims to raise £100,000 for 'The Brompton Hospital for Consumption'. The second page lists the Appeal's officers, and the third gives the cast list for Byng's play, including Ernest Thesiger, Viola Tree, Florence Desmond and Cicely Courtneidge. The last page gives a description of 'THE BROMPTON HOSPITAL' and of the uses to which donations might be put.