And here is a blow up of that all but empty rectangle in the middle - if you still can't read it, you're not darned close enough ...
Monday, 8 June 2015
Breathing space
In Funny Bones I quoted an advertisement which Freddie's grandad Jack Herbert placed in The Stage. But I didn't provide the context. So here, first of all, is part of page 8 of The Stage for January 13th, 1927:
And here is a blow up of that all but empty rectangle in the middle - if you still can't read it, you're not darned close enough ...
And here is a blow up of that all but empty rectangle in the middle - if you still can't read it, you're not darned close enough ...
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