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...Little Men. Boiling with energy, Painter Lewis had become a writer as well. In his first novel, Tarr (1918), he tore into sentimentality and romanticism. In poems, books (The Art of Being Ruled, Time and Western Man) and pamphlets, he attacked the little man, the big man and the "mass units" of democracy. A rogue male who belonged to no herd, no party, he was worshiped by a few and tolerated by many-until the fateful day when Adolf Hitler loomed up on the horizon and captivated him. "To my eternal shame," groaned Lewis last year, "I ... wrote that Hitler...
...Face in the Window. Her oldest sister, Beatrice, was married to a New York photographer named Larry Tarr, and when17-year-old Ava came visiting in 1940, he was fascinated by his sister-in-law, shot dozens of pictures of her. Enter the agent of fate, one Barney Duhan, then a clerk in Loew's New York legal department. One day Duhan's eyes were arrested by the picture of a girl in Photographer Tarr's show window. "It was the face of the kind of girl you want to marry," recalls Duhan. "It was vibrant...
...called the Tarr studios, introducing himself as a "Metro talent scout," and asked for the girl's name & address. Her name, he heard, was Ava Gardner, and she lived down in North Carolina. Disappointed that he could not meet her, Duhan told Tarr to send some pictures over. Tarr sent 60. Metro bigwigs saw them...
...thin clockwork cadence . . ." Britain's Wyndham Lewis once wrote, "the delicate surf falls with the abrupt clash of glass, section by section." Embedded in his mocking, thumb-to-nose social satires (Tarr, The Apes of God), such descriptions helped make him famous...
...restful to putt, when the strains of a band Announced a thé dansant was on at the Grand.... How lightly municipal, meltingly tarr'd Were the walks through the Lawns by the Queen's Promenade...