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Most Frenchmen have a natural distrust of living anywhere except in France, but the poster swayed the schoolteacher and his wife. It showed a colonial couple, elegant in tropic white, taking their ease in a banana grove, while eager natives bustled at tasks around them. "Young people," assured the poster legend, "a fortune awaits you in the Colonies!" Ma and her husband applied for teaching posts in Indo-China and, one day in 1899, sailed to take them...
...marines, gave no more thought to the problem after one look at a tall (5 ft. 10 in.), attractive brunette lady lieutenant named Julia E. Hamblet. "Judy," a Vassar graduate (economics and field hockey) from Winchester, Mass., looked like a girl who was born to pose for a recruiting poster...
...jobless ex-college student in the middle of a Peking winter, young Liu Shaw-tong was a pushover for the poster...
...master. Said the Times: "Very obviously the work of an exploring, ruthlessly experimental, and intensely serious mind." Matisse himself was on the French Riviera, propped up in bed and drawing a little. The show was his own idea. He had even designed a catalogue cover and an exhibition poster to go with...
...CRIMSON's reviewer of de Hartog's The Four Poster pointed out that this work goes the three-character Voice of the Turtle one better by requiring only two players. He added the comment that "the ultimate peak has yet to be scaled" and that "de Hartog's record will stand for a time." Actually this is no record at all, for Claude Vincent's full-length drama Conscience has only one character. This play was done magnificently last spring in both Boston and New York by one of our greatest actors, Maurice Schwartz...