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...most wonderful thing that's ever happened to me.' "When I returned to New York I got in touch with the Playwrights' Company who, after listening to my story, looking at the paintings, and reading the TIME article, immediately commissioned Gerard Sekoto to do a poster for the play - and in addition, began to make arrangements for the theater-lobby exhibit of Sekoto paintings of his native land...
...Coca-Cola, which the Reds have denounced as capitalist poison (TIME, Aug. 22). Unità, which looks like Coke but has a strong flavor of quinine and tamarind, was a flop. Since Communist palates still thirsted for real Coke, the party decided to play it safe. "Comrades," announced a poster, "Coca-Cola was not invented by the Americans, but by the Russians...
...entire orchestra in its belly. It also had rough & ready Louise Weber (known for her lusty appetites as La Goulue-the glutton), who nightly exposed her shapely limbs and 60 yards of lace lingerie in hectic kicks and splits. To publicize her, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec did his first poster...
Last week Parisians were crowding into a small Left Bank gallery to look at La Goulue and 29 other posters that had established Lautrec as the master poster artist of all time. The first complete set on view in many a year, the sprawling lithographs showed Paris in the '90s, raffish and glamorously depraved...
...months ago, after spending 20 years trying to round up a complete collection, Art Dealer Gustave Michel finally located Lautrec's last and rarest poster, La Gitane, proceeded with plans for the Paris show. Later on, Michel hoped to send the show to the U.S., where few people had ever seen a complete set of Lautrec posters...