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DIED. Marie-Térèse Walter, 68, Pablo Picasso's mistress from 1927 to 1942 and mother of his daughter Maïa; by her own hand (hanging); in Antibes, France. Described by Art Critic John Berger as "sexually the most important" woman in Picasso's life, she appeared in hundreds of his paintings and drawings...
...betrayed him with one. In this play-outside-a-play Strindberg (Max von Sydow) is directing a brief one-acter of his own called The Stronger. The actual play that Strindberg wrote is a 15-minute monologue in which a voluble wife tests her husband's adamantly silent mistress...
...Enquist's version the mistress be comes a beer-swigging lesbian, Marie Caroline David (Eileen Atkins), and the wife, Siri von Essen-Strindberg (Bibi Andersson), proclaims her love for her to Strindberg's horror, anger, jealousy and despair. The lines, mean and many, are sulfurous fumes straight from the marriage pit. In much of Enquist's play, Strindberg spews vitriolic putdowns at both women. These speeches are used to indicate the large feminine component in Strindberg's nature of which he was fully aware and which he wished to exorcise through a bludgeoning masculinity...
...Theatricals 127 Props Mistress...
...role demands a certain presence, a knack for walking into a roomful of gaping admirers and creating an aura. Some scenes seem structured with this purpose in mind; at one point. Nureyev completely upstages a porcine-looking boor in a fashionable Manhattan night club by sweeping the latter's mistress off her feet. The episode, although somewhat gratuitous, is meant to show Valentino's swashbuckling stride. The desired effect is partly produced, but the strain behind the effort becomes obvious...