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...French Official War Pictures which are to be shown at the Boston Opera House next Sunday evening will be well worth seeing. Among the pictures to be shown will be those taken at the attacks on the Somme and at Verdun. M. Janvier, well known among theatre-goers as the first Frenchman to introduce plays in France written by Shaw and Ibsen, was the photographer of these films. He has been connected with the Theatre Antoine and Beaux Arts, and for many years was stage manager of Odeon, one of the Government theatres. He himself is now in the United...
...Janvier, Princeton '80, of Philadelphia, gave a lecture on "India" in Phillips Brooks House last night. After a description of the general physical characteristics of the country, and of the intellectual and moral condition of the people, Mr. Janvier gave an account of the three great movements or crises of the present day in India, the social change in the breaking down of caste, the movement away from the old religions into agnosticism or atheism, and the political awakening stimulated by the success of Japan. He referred to the work of the Y. M. C. A., which is under...
...Janvier of Philadelphia will give an illustrated lecture on "India: the Country and its Future," this evening at 8 o'clock in Peabody Hall, Phillips Brooks House. The lecture will be held under the auspices of the Harvard Mission, the Christian Association and the St. Paul's Society...
...Janvier was born in India, was graduated from Princeton University in 1880, and has spent fourteen years as a teacher in India. He was for some time a fellow of Allahabad University in Central India. While in India he was closely associated with E. C. Carter '00 in his work as national secretary of Young Men's Christian Associations for the Indian Empire, and he will make special reference to this work tonight...
...Century for March opens with "The Violoncello of Jufrow Rozenboom," a quaint Dutch story with a happy ending, describing the adventures of an eccentric pair of lovers. The second part of "An Embassy to Provence" by Thomas a Janvier is begun in this number. It is a story of Provencal life and is well illustrated by Castaigne. A very interesting article is "Napoleon's Deportation to Elba" by the officer in charge, Admiral Sir Thomas Ussher of the Royal Navy. It is a detailed description of the voyage and is illustrated with portraits of Napoleon and Sir Thomas Ussher. "Jamaica...