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CitesIdeal Homes Exhibition (Olympia, London) (1933).
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‘The longest queues at Olympia are composed, not of home-makers waiting to investigate the refinements and newest gadgets of the 1933 show houses, but people eager to see and fondle the four-footed pals without which no family circle can be deemed complete, or any home considered ideal.
The canine aristocracy is assembled at Olympia from scores of famous kennels up and down the country to be housed for the duration in temporary ideal doggy homes erected and staffed by the dog’s universal providers – Spratts.
Side by side with Lorna, Countess Howe’s magnificent Labrador Retriever, Ch. Bramshaw Bob, the canine champion of champions, the visitor is invited to make the acquaintance of hardly less worthy representatives of such unfamiliar breeds as the Thibetan [sic] Terrier, the Thibetan Spaniel, the Afghan Hound, or the Norwich Terrier – the newest breed to be recognised by the Kennel Club. Spratt’s believe in variety. On every working day throughout the run of the exhibition, the program of dog and puppy exhibits is changed entirely, but on any day, the visitor will find there dogs worth scores or hundreds, and in quite a number of cases, thousands of pounds apiece in the company of dogs for which fantastic price offers have been made or refused, and others which (the owners will tell you) all the money in the world could not buy.
Practically all the dogs on show are Tail-Waggers, with the result that Spratt’s champion dog show is being visited by a host of celebrities – men and women prominent in social and political circles, art, music, literature, and the drama, and, of course, sport, who are themselves owners of Tail-Waggers.’
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CitesSpratt's Patent Ltd.
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‘The longest queues at Olympia are composed, not of home-makers waiting to investigate the refinements and newest gadgets of the 1933 show houses, but people eager to see and fondle the four-footed pals without which no family circle can be deemed complete, or any home considered ideal.
The canine aristocracy is assembled at Olympia from scores of famous kennels up and down the country to be housed for the duration in temporary ideal doggy homes erected and staffed by the dog’s universal providers – Spratts.
Side by side with Lorna, Countess Howe’s magnificent Labrador Retriever, Ch. Bramshaw Bob, the canine champion of champions, the visitor is invited to make the acquaintance of hardly less worthy representatives of such unfamiliar breeds as the Thibetan [sic] Terrier, the Thibetan Spaniel, the Afghan Hound, or the Norwich Terrier – the newest breed to be recognised by the Kennel Club. Spratt’s believe in variety. On every working day throughout the run of the exhibition, the program of dog and puppy exhibits is changed entirely, but on any day, the visitor will find there dogs worth scores or hundreds, and in quite a number of cases, thousands of pounds apiece in the company of dogs for which fantastic price offers have been made or refused, and others which (the owners will tell you) all the money in the world could not buy.
Practically all the dogs on show are Tail-Waggers, with the result that Spratt’s champion dog show is being visited by a host of celebrities – men and women prominent in social and political circles, art, music, literature, and the drama, and, of course, sport, who are themselves owners of Tail-Waggers.’
Inc. photograph.
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Cited byT. Quick, 'Puppy Love: Domestic Science, “Women's Work,” and Canine Care,' Journal of British Studies 58 (2) (2019), pp. 289-314.
Description:'The prominence of dog shows at home exhibitions appears to have declined after 1933. [note: '“The Good Companions of Ideal Homes,” Our Dogs, no. 91 (7 April 1933): 29.']' (312)
