Rector, George [1879? - 1947] - DINING In NEW YORK With RECTOR. A Personal Guide to Good Eating

New York: Prentice-Hall Inc, 1939. 1st Edition. Orange cloth binding with silver stamped lettering. No dust jacket. ix, [1 (blank)], 275, [3 (blank)] pp (including Index). 8vo. Slight lean. Some modest wear & soiling to cloth. Pencil scribble to front paste-down. Very Good. George Rector was a restaurateur, raconteur and food authority who wrote several cookbooks in the 1920s and 1930s. He appeared on radio on the Columbia Broadcasting System in Dine with George Rector and played himself in at least one movie, Every Day's a Holiday (1937), with Mae West. Rector was born in Chicago, where his father—Charles E. Rector—ran Rector's Oyster House. He claimed his father took him out of Cornell University where he was studying law, and sent him to Paris to learn how to make a sauce for filet of sole. Rector and his father ran several restaurants in New York State and Chicago. At Rector's on Broadway in New York City, he and his father were known for serving celebrities of the 1910s, as Rector's was known as "a leading resort of the theatrical, financial and social worlds of those days". The restaurant closed with the coming of prohibition. [Wiki].