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Intimations.
THE CHINA MAIL.
POSTERS I HAVE PERPIT. KATED.
Some Amusing Reminiscences.
[BY JOHN, HASSALL
Once upon a time-this is not a fairy.
MITSU BISHI GOSHI KWAISHA tale there was a little boy named Jack.
(MITSU BISHI CO.)
whose mother made him stay indoors bo cause it was raining. Now Jack didn't want to stay indoors, and he decided that if he could make things wetter inside than
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of the two evils, and give him his way. So ho. began to ery as fast as only two eyes COLE PROPRIETORS of TAKA- | will pormit anybody to cry."
Then his mother, to comfort him, gab SIMA, OCHI, MUTABE, HOJO,
contained a print of a large burkey. This the proceeded to colour a virid yellow, and the yellowar the turkey became, the loss the little boy cried,' until at last it was so shockingly yellow that he stopped crying altogether, and fall to thinking how wonder- ful it would be if, when ho grow up, he could maka" such beautiful bright things- out of nothing but a box of paints.
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The surname of this little boy you bavo, of course, already guessed. And, now, when you see on the hoardings thoso queer things people call Hassalls," you will understand why they are painted in such bright eclours, and why I am fond of things as they aren't just as much as I am fond of things as they are.
But let me grow up.
People often ask me what I consider MY GREATEST SUCCESS IN POSTER WOKS, and I find it hard question to answer.
Special Department for Developing and Printing for Amateurs, CHINAIANG: Messrs Gearing & My experience is, that the humorous
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Jongkong, March 15, 1810,
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Bongtong, January 9, 1909,
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TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1810,
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Cadbury's
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ORDER
TO-DAY
OR
stance, the case of the poster I did for Mr You will
Pélissier of the Follies.
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This poster, you may remember, showed a very forlorn troupe of Follies standing desolately upon the stage of an empty theatre but for one man, evidently tha rompant of the audience, who was in the set of deabing out of the stalls: The Follica
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poster, but the manager of the theatre in which they were appearing was someghat dubious about its appeal. He thought the
HE THIRTY-SECOND ORDINARY joke was too much against the Follies-
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However, it was put out. And the very next morning, the manager rang me up to call me to see the crowd it bad attracted.
From another point of view, I might call my "Wee BlacGregor " figure my groátast success. It was not only talked about, bus used as a cartoon, goods were named altez it, and it was turned into a fancy drews, and into toyu.
Another success was my Newmarket post, ich represented horse-trainer apt a girl in a hunting-cost, standing against a dull, fat Lack ground with two horses on the top of the horizon line,
In connection with this, an old lady
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25 Import and Export Merchants, dax's Street, on THURSDAY, the 24th happened to call up at David Allen's offico W have this day entabilshed ourselves March, at 11.30 . for the purpose of when I was there, and declared hersea Steamship Agents. Commission Agents,
OLOF WLIK & CO'S receiving the Report and Statement of fervent admirer of my work. My posters do.. at 25, Des Vosur Road Central. Accounts for the year oading 31st Decem-en the hoardings wore so clear, she said,
East Aslatie Agencies A.B., Ltd.
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with grasised pride. "Which is the poster W ARTHUE NILSSON as our Sale Awesday morning in Conduit Bond
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"Well," replied the old indy, it's one
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POČKA KIM DE
SHIFOWNERS ANTIFOULING |_*
COMPOSITIONS
of
a hors-trsiner and a girl, leaning against
a wall, with two cats on top."
At present I'm told "Mr Pready and
the Countess off to Kew in a cfur-wheeler"
is most to the front.
1
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A. BUNE, No. 8, Conduit Road,
or Na 4, Des Voeux Road Central.
Hongkong, Maret 17, 1910.
ARMSTRONG to sign our Firm Swalow Of course, I got a great many applications Whare this day authorised Ma F. H. ME P. B. HOLYOAK will sign one Firm per procaration.
from different people for
THE ORIGINAL SKETCHIN
of the posters I have painted. Generally,
FOR SHIMA BOTTOMS (GAEYHOUND BEAND), they are not in my possession, and, on learning this, the applicants sometime ANTIFRICTION METALS,
ask me to do them an original, then!”
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I remember selling the original of one of the earlicat posters I ever painted to a lady living in Berlin for twenty-one poundstate She wrote, offering me this adm for the! original sketch of the poster in question, which, as a matter of fact, consisted only o 40, Connaught Road Central.
a rough drawing on half a sheet of note- TELEGRAM, WANDEROOB.
TEL. 909,
paper. I thought it looked pace value for Hongkong, August 3, 1909.
977 the money, but sent it off, and, sure enough, a few days later I received that cheque for twenty guinens.
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Undoubtedly, the great thing for an artist in black and white to possess is ideas, and it is wonderful how they come at all 5,50 F...
I often sit 1. Borta of unexpected moments.. what I am going finally to turn out and draw with nó particular object in view. But as my work progresses, something in the akoloh will suddenly present an iden...! may be a joke, k'humorous silvation, or a netion for a poster.
On one occasion, for instance, I was sketching the figure of an old lady, without
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THE ANNUAL DEVONIAN DINNER will be held at the HONGKONG HOTEL, on SATURDAY, 2nd Apell, 1910, at 8 o'clock 2.5.
Davonlaus wishing to attend are request- the least idas of what I was going to makeed to send their names to put me M. 8. NORTHCOTE,
Hon, Secretary of it, when it suddenly occurred to mo that she bore a resemblance.to an old woman I-
Hongkong, March 18, 1910.
Hongkong and and once seen at a country railway-stabica,
Canton.
FAT HING & 00. HATE ALL KIMEN OF FLOWERS, DWARF PLANTS, SERNS,
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We invite inspection of our Fine Show a
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That gave me an idea, which I quickly worked up.
When compitted, the sketch showed an old woman saking a porter it an approach- ing expres, travelling at sixty miles an hour, stopped at the station.
"No." replied the potter, it doesn't oren, bositate !"...
Cheque for Mr Hassal!!
MOST OF MY IDEAN
for poster subjects, however, I got from an old book of nursery rhymes, which I find chock-full of suggestions, while for typos of faces the Tubes and Underground offer a wille field, and I often betake mysli in
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