Word: colins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decades. Painter Paul Colin had all France for an art gallery. His work appeared on stately buildings and on ruins, on the walls of Paris' Folies-Bergere and in a thousand small-town railway stations...
...France's most successful poster artist, Colin turned out the best affiches since Toulouse-Lautrec, and he had mastered his predecessor's trick of seizing a subject's single feature and turning it into an artistic stop sign. Among Colin's subjects: Isadora Duncan, Josephine Baker, Pavlova, Katharine Hepburn, the French National Railroads, Cinzano, vacation resorts such as Cannes and Deauville...
Soon after World War II, successful Artist Colin-who had started as a penniless Montmartre dauber, decorating bistro walls and menu cards-concentrated on serious painting. Last week Paris saw the result. Painter Colin himself was on hand in the gallery to explain the difference between his old and his new work: "Designing a poster is like writing a telegram. Painting a picture is like writing a letter...
...play has to do with a husband, his wife and her lover (Roland Culver, Anne Vernon, Colin Gordon) shipwrecked on a tropical island. For impudent light comedy, there could be no brighter situation to start off with, and no tougher one to follow up. The moves may be almost as clearly indicated as in chess,, but as in chess there can be tedious waits between them. In The Little Hut, first the bland British husband is carefully told what goes on, then the obliging wife is openly shared. The lover, in the process, turns as growlsome as a husband...
SAVAGE PLAY (381 pp.)-Paul Colin-Dutton...