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...poster shows two giant young ladies, nude save for a white strip marked "censored," blaring out meaninglessly "Follies Bergere." Also a sheet painted with a new-type Shmoo, the "digger," hangs from the ceiling; and on one wall, dozens of babies pronounce the virtues of their candidate-choice...
...then that Nazi propaganda lies about Roosevelt's racial background could have begun. For each time a new set of officers was elected in those days a comic poster was printed playing on the names of the new men. In FDR's case it read: "For Secretary, Rosy Rosenfelt, The Lillie of the Valley...
...Squads of paste and bucket men were sent rushing out to some 500 billboards which carried pictures of various lesser Democratic candidates. Over these expendable faces the paste and bucket brigade slapped a mammoth photograph of Harry Truman holding aloft the hand of Scott Lucas. The legend on the poster: "For World Peace and Continued Prosperity-Vote Democratic...
Gussie Moran got top billing as the tennis pros opened their winter tour in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week; Jack Kramer, Pancho Segura and Pauline Betz Addie took what poster space was left. As a reflection of tennis ability this made no sense, but the pros knew what they were doing. Their box-office mixture is not tennis alone, but tennis with a brimming jigger of circus stuff...
Oenslager's drawings have a poster-like quality that is ideal for explicit, colorful comedy designs. It is sometimes inadequate in treating big dramas which rely heavily on mood and atmosphere. In designing for such dramas Jones excels. He uses a delicate pen-and-ink and wash technique to record mood and atmosphere, rather than providing scale drawings for the scene painter. Many of Jones' drawings have no more color than a subtly graded grey wash and one or two small areas of blood red. His designs for the Lionel Barrymore "Macbeth" of 1921 and the John Barrymore "Hamlet...