Bob Connolly's Personalities - Who's Who in Cartoons 1949 Edition (reprinted from Rand Daily Mail)

Hard board cover.printed by Pacific Press (Pty.) Ltd 302 Fox Street Johannesburg. 111 pages

Page 57 has a crease. page 15 is autographed by the personalty depicted there. Mr Gilbert Brown - treasurer and admissions manager, of the White City Sporting Club. inscription reads "To Bill with very best wishes Gilbert Dec '48"

Previous owners address stamped on ffep and rear end paper.

" Introduction

Bob Connoly's "Persaonalities" which appear each day in the "Rand Daily Mail" are only rivalled by his daily political cartoons for the public interest.

Before he has penned his last stroke, he will have portrayed every man of distinction on the rand in his own indominitable style, and you may be assured, the sketch Bob Connolly draws is a speaking likeness of the personality under review.

I have been following his cartoons ever since they first appeared, and I am sure only Bob Connolly could have caught just that characteristic look of my friends and given them that 'aliveness' which makes the cartoon more lifelike than a photograph.

The rand is populous with men of distinction and Bob Connolly is doing an admirable thing in bringing them in this graphic way before the public view. In going a step further by publishing a selected group of these "Personalities" in book form, he is fulfilling a want of long duration.

J.L. Sutherland

Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts "

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