John Everett Millais Millais's interest in subjects connected to Britain's history and expanding empire. Millais also achieved great popularity with his paintings of children, notably "Bubbles" (1886) – famous, or perhaps notorious, for being used in the advertising of "Pears soap" – and "Cherry Ripe". His last project (1896) was to be a painting entitled "The Last Trek." Based on his illustration for his son's book, it depicted a white hunter lying dead in the African veldt, his body contemplated by two Africans. His many landscape paintings of this period usually depict difficult or dangerous terrain. The first of these, "Chill October" (1870)
It Pays to Advertise (film) film received positive reviews. "Photoplay" wrote that it has "plenty of speed and lots of laughs", and praised the "perfect cast". It Pays to Advertise (film) It Pays to Advertise is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, based on the play of the same name by Roi Cooper Megrue and Walter C. Hackett, starring Norman Foster and Carole Lombard, and directed by Frank Tuttle. Paramount made also a French-language film "" (1932), directed by Karl Anton. Rodney Martin sets up a soap business to rival his father. With the help of an advertising expert and his secretary, Mary, he develops