HIS LORDSHIP 1936 George Arliss, René Ray, Romilly Lunge TRADE ADVERT

Original British 17 inch x 22 inch Trade Advertisement from Kinematograph Weekly November 5th 1936 for the 1936 Herbert Mason Thriller HIS LORDSHIP, based on the play by Neil Grant and starring George Arliss, René Ray, Romilly Lunge and Allan Jeayes.

The twin of a British diplomat steps into his brother's shoes when the assassination of an Arab emir creates a political powder keg.

Artwork by Marc Stone (1909 - 1991). Marcus Stone was born in Marylebone, London, and educated at the Slade School of Art. In the 1930s he was designing posters for Gaumont British Film Studios including “The Ghoul” (1933), “The Camels Are Coming” (1934) , “A Fire Has Been Arranged” (1935), “Broken Blossoms” (1936) and “His Lordship” (1936). During World War II he worked for the War Office. After the war he returned to film poster work creating such posters as “The Tales of Hoffmann” (1951) for Michael Powell.
He did regular commissioned portraits of the "Man of the Week, Month, Year" for British magazine covers. In addition, he painted sports figures, jockeys in caricature style for the centre pages of a sports illustrated magazine and recruitment posters for the Armed Forces in the early 60s. Ultimately, he claimed "the camera put him out of business”.

Trade advertisements are colourful posters aimed at cinema managers, which were either slipped in, or part of, the weekly film trade journals which were available to them by subscription but were not sold to the general public. The large size Trade advertisements are about the size of US half sheet posters and have a centre fold which is usually hard to discern when flat. Most were designed to be pulled out, and some were attached by staples. Most have the date in tiny letters in one of the top corners. The publishers own copies from the 1930’s were destroyed by fire and water damage during the Blitz and Wartime paper drives decimated those held by cinemas making them quite rare.

The Advertisement is in very good condition with one vertical centre fold.