Rupert D'Oyly Carte
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Rupert D'Oyly Carte was an English hotelier, theatre owner and impresario, best known as proprietor of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company and Savoy Hotel from 1913 to 1948.
Souvenir programme cover: 1919–20 season
Psmith
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Rupert Psmith is a recurring fictional character in several novels by British author P. G. Wodehouse, being one of Wodehouse's best-loved characters.
Rupert D'Oyly Carte
…internationally famous. He also increased marketing activities, including foreign marketing, of the hotels. P. G. Wodehouse based a character in his novels, Psmith, on a Wykehamist schoolboy whom he identified as Rupert D'Oyly Carte. At his death, Carte passed the opera company and hotels to his only surviving…
Psmith (left) and Mike Jackson, illustration by T. M. R. Whitwell of The New Fold, published in The Captain (1908)