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After a fast first inning, action began in earnest in the second. Huskie pitcher Bob Mullin fanned, but then Yarbro issued a free pass to Don Darracq. Catcher Sid Natanson followed Mullin's example and earned a third strike by jumping at a Yarbro curve...
...satisfaction of guessing little by little: to suggest it, to evoke it-that is what charms the imagination." The imagination is consistently charmed by Vuillard's subtle, dreamy interiors, in which he weaves motifs as unobtrusively compelling as those in an oriental brocade. Missia and Thadée Natanson (opposite), painted about 1897 when Vuillard was at the height of his sensational youthful success, is full of golden, slightly melancholic elegance. Missia Natanson sits in absolute relaxation and dignity, while her husband Thadée, an editor-friend of Vuillard's, leans contemplatively on a piano that...
Misia was not the only one who was impressed with Misia. Before she was 16, she was married to a young Parisian man of affairs, Thadee Natanson, whom she met one evening while out with Alfred Nobel, the dynamite manufacturer, and his American mistress. After blithely spending her dowry of 300,000 francs (then $60,000) on a trousseau, Misia settled in Paris, and while Thadee concerned himself with business, she diverted herself by building homes on the Riviera, helping imprisoned anarchists and bewitching the first of a long succession of assorted geniuses...
...table too distraught to eat. Edwards' wife berated Misia for upsetting the great man; rather than distress him, Mme. Edwards told her, Misia should become his mistress. Misia was indignant, but Edwards was persistent. For all the world like the heavy in a French melodrama, he lured Thadee Natanson into a disastrous business scheme, then offered to save him in exchange for Misia. The bargain was struck, Misia finally agreed, and after rapid divorces she married Edwards...