The Archive · 1935

Miss Lucille Douglass

Many Shanghai people were saddened at reading the cable anncuncing the death in Andover, Massa chusatts, on September 27, of Miss Lucille Douglass, an American from the South (Alabama, if memory serves), who was resident in Shanghai from 1920-25 and has made several visits here since that time.

Miss Douglass won distinction for her water-colours and pastels whilst in Shanghai, as well as for her writings, and for the informally and witty addresses she occasionally gave before various organizations. 'Since leaving China, her talents have turned towards etching, In which she has won international' recognition. Her drawings of Angkor were hun some years ago in the Colonial Ex: hibition in. Paris, which Miss Dou Tass attended as "a guest of the French Government.

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