Word: tigerish
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Weird Wonder Boy. The marriage was "a ghastly error." Out of bed, Mathilde was "naive, vain and stupid." In bed, it never occurred to her that Verlaine's "tigerish love" hid a yearning for motherly protection. When friends came to the house one day in Mathilde's absence, he was in a small closet, locked in the housemaid's shielding arms...
...heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with tigerish passion, and died at 35 in a gutterdam-merung of hooch and heroin...
...mark with a tour by the late, swanlike Anna Pavlova, but Nippon stayed off its toes until after World War II. In 1946 the occupation forces blessed a performance of Swan Lake-all four acts of it-staged by a pickup Japanese troupe. It was headed by a tigerish young dancer named Masahide Komaki, who had studied ballet with Russian refugees. The production had a grand total of only 22 dancers (v. 64 for Sadler's Wells' Swan Lake today). Optimistically booked for one week, the show sold out for two; it hit Tokyo on the ballet button...
...secret police-about the porcine Chekist who ravaged a whole Cossack village but lost his own life when attacked by five cavalrymen after killing its last naked, crazed peasant; about the Communist who had the girl who jilted him arrested at her wedding reception, and permitted his most tigerish investigator to rape and shoot...
Soprano Stevens was delighteu. "I wanted to do something new," she says, "and I wanted to do it at La Scala." She found the music modern but not radical; it gave her a chance to move about the stage in the tigerish fashion that has made her the favorite Carmen at the Met. But mounting a world premiere is no picnic, even for the vaunted Scala. The first dress rehearsal was disastrous, and in the five days before opening night opera officials and the stage-wise Stevens staff toiled 20 hours at a stretch, revising everything from scenery to dramatic...