Category: The Black Star Collection
Partnership: HOPPÉ, Emil Otto
Agency: ILLUSTRATED
Event Date: 1950-10-07
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.007369

Inscriptions:
recto, [no inscription]; verso, handwritten: The Ritz / Londo / Hotel / 45; stamped: CREDIT: / [star shape] / Credit: / “ILLUSTRATED” COPYRIGHT / from BLACK STAR / Negative No – 7 Oct 1950 / CLIFFORDS INN, LONDON. / from BLACK STAR / GRAYBAR BUILDING NEW YOUK / Must not be reproduced / without permission; handwritten: Man who knows the secrets of the Ritz is / Georgie Faroutakis, the concierge, here on the / steps of the Arlington street entrance with / Aga Khan. Each year the Aga Khan invites / Georges to stay at his villa at Deauville. When / Prince Aly Khan was a youngster he went to the / U. S. in the care of the concierge.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: LONDON HOTELS / EXT.
Retouching: N