Word: isadora
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beige-painted stone building which was once Isadora Duncan's Moscow home now has new tenants. The gold-lettered black plaque on the gateway reads: Council for Religious Affairs...
...himself an artist, largely self-taught. Born in Russia, bred in Brooklyn, he is an uncompromising modernist, claims that he was the first modern artist in America. Until his current show, he was chiefly known for his 20-year series of some thousands of drawings of famed Dancer Isadora Duncan. To this day Artist Walkowitz will give one of these line drawings to anybody who he thinks has the right feeling about Isadora...
...influence-Solomon Sturges, stockbroker and socialite, was a champion cyclist and a good amateur baseball player. The Attic haberdashery was his mother's idea. Mary Dempsey, who changed her name to Beatricci D'Este and finally settled for Mary Desti, was the bosom friend of Isadora Duncan...
...intermarriage with the whites. The results would be fine, he pointed out, since they would combine the black man's magnificent physique with the white man's mental prowess. I understand that no one thought of quoting Shaw against himself by bringing up his reported reply to Isadora Duncan when she (according to the story) suggested that they have a child in order to combine her beauty with his brains. He is said to have refused her suggestion on the grounds that the child might be born the other way around...
...occasionally throws quiet parties for her dancer colleagues. Otherwise she works her shapely legs off rehearsing, washes her own tights, spends her time on the sidelines cheering on the other members of the troupe. To Ballet Boss Hurok, who has managed everything from a peddler's pushcart to Isadora Duncan, Angel Chase is the answer to an impresario's dream-art's ardent athlete, a check's most beautiful signature. Says Sol of their joint enterprise: "The Ballet Theatre combines financial respectability with artistical principle...