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...Paris studio last week, students were searching for the thoughts in some of his best works. On the surface, many of the paintings looked like mere blood & thunder illustration. Delacroix had applied his fierce imagination and brilliant, Rubensesque draftsmanship to an endless series of somber myths, tiger hunts and desert duels. His chief thought seemed to be: "It's a cruel world, and one in which men play a bravely ineffectual role...
...knew who I was." She studied in Manhattan with Hanya Holm, and in 1941 gave a debut recital. Her The Desperate Heart won big notices in 1943. But it was not until Valerie stopped the show in Bea Lillie's Inside U.S.A. last year with her tawny "Tiger Lily" dance that anyone but modern dance devotees was very sure...
...week's end, Publisher Bryan had cheering news for column readers. After interviewing numerous applicants, she had taken on another young tomcat with the same tiger markings and haunting eyes as her late staffer. His name: Scoopy...
...nearly 14 years, Scoopy, a tiger-striped torn, had made his home and office in an In box on the desk of Publisher Isabel Bryan, a seventyish spinster, in the cluttered basement office of the Villager. Scoopy's byline and photograph had graced a widely read column of jottings and musings ("Scoopy Mewses") on the editorial page. Artists painted Scoopy's portrait, photographers snapped him, the Christian Science Monitor sang his praises...
...opening show she managed to inject a few bars of her favorite song. I Got Rhythm, and gave the full Merman treatment to three others. She portrayed a fight announcer ("Tiger is fighting back! He throws a left - a right - another left. Now he's bringing a right uppercut from the floor - now they're bringing Tiger up from the floor."). She played every character in a "Pageant of American Womanhood" that included Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and a hilarious Joan of Arc, as well as such authentic native daughters as Barbara Frietchie, Ruby Foo and Miriam...