Hotel Splendide

LUDWIG BEMELMANS (1898-1962) was an Austrian-born American writer, artist and illustrator. He emigrated from Austria to America in 1914, at the age of sixteen, and initially worked in the New York hotel industry before becoming a full-time cartoonist and writer. As an illustrator, he made frequent contributions to the New Yorker, Vogue and Town and Country, and created the famous murals in the Bemelmans Bar in the Carlyle Hotel in New York. He published many books for both children and adults, including the beloved Madeline children's books.

• CONTENTS1.    The Animal Waiter                               72.    Art at the Hotel Splendide                 143.    The   Lost Mandolin                              234.   Easy Money                                        355.    Kalakobe                                              436.    A Night in Granada                             517.    The Hispano                                        568.    The Homesick Bus Boy                       629.    The New Suit                                        7010.    The Ballet Visits the Magician          8211.    The Magician Does a New Trick           8912.    The Dreams of the Magician                9613.   My Valet Lustgarten                          10514.    The Banquet                                       11615.    The   Murderer of the Splendide         129

The adventures of the original bad boy of the New York restaurant/hotel underbelly continue. Whether writing about the backstairs misadventures of cooks and waiters or travel to faraway lands, Bemelmans is always funny, insightful and dead on target. No one has ever surpassed the master