Too much Hutch

From: The Spectator | Date: November 27, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

Too much Hutch

Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy

HUTCH by Charlotte Breese Bloomsbury, L25, pp. 364

Prominent among the four pages of acknowledgments (plus a further six at the end) in Hutch is the name Hugh Bredin. Is this the charming, gifted copywriter I knew when I was an ungifted copywriter at Ogilvy, Benson & Mather? I think it may be. If so, he had an extraordinary, encyclopaedic Master Mind for esoterica - in this case I suspect his special subject was nightclubs of Mayfair 1920-60 - handy for a book about Leslie A. Hutchinson who from 1930 to 1948 was the leading cabaret artist in ...

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