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That's Show Business

Fougasse (Cyril Kenneth Bird) (1887-1965)

Price

~~£450~~ £200

Medium

Ink

Dimensions

2 x 3 ¼ inches

Illustrated

Punch, 17 June 1964, Page 877

Mounted

After Home office approval, twelve swans from (where else?) stratford on avon are to be flown to California and relocated on an artificial lake at the Movieland War Museum, to take up the job of commemorating Tchaikovsky, Grace Kelly, and, of course, William Shakespeare. oh yes, and the Second World War. which only goes to show how bad business is in Hollywood just now. in the old days, this material would have run to at least four epics

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