FREAK DINNERS.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2143, 28 December 1920, Page 11

FREAK DINNERS.

The American millionaire philanthropist. Mr George A. Kessler, has died In Paris at the age of 57, after a painful illness. Mr Kessler, who became interested in the Moet et Chandon champagne firm after a remarkable business career in the United States, was famous as a fiver of "freak*' dinners. One of his est remembered efforts in that line in London was a North Pole dinner at the Savoy, for which the winter garden was used. The guests sat among icebergs, and the waiters were dressed as Eskimos. On ano'ther occasion he entertained £4 guests to dinner in a Venetian gondola, floating in the Savoy courtyard, which was flooded for the occasion and decorated with Venetian scenery. This fantastic meal worked out at something over £IOO for each guest.