Word: tigerishness
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...more, G.W.T.W. has a grand, simpleminded, 19th century story to tell and a gallery of splendid theatrical caricatures to display. Gable never in later movies topped his performance as Rhett Butler, the man of iron with a heart of caramel. Vivien Leigh, though she seldom shows the tigerish vitality that Author Mitchell wrote into her Scarlett O'Hara, nevertheless makes a fascinating, green-eyed bitch-kitty. And Hattie McDaniel, as Scarlett's hammy old mammy, just about waddles off with the show...
Delia (Delia Reese; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). In a style that is not pretty and voice that is not sweet, one of the most exciting of the newer girl singers expresses her rather tigerish devotions in numbers such as If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight and You're Driving Me Crazy. There is a growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck...
Weird Wonder Boy. The marriage was "a ghastly error." Out of bed, Mathilde was "naive, vain and stupid." In bed, it never occurred to her that Verlaine's "tigerish love" hid a yearning for motherly protection. When friends came to the house one day in Mathilde's absence, he was in a small closet, locked in the housemaid's shielding arms...
...heights of.adequacy. Jeanne Eagels casts her in the first part that is just beyond her grasp-that of an actress. And not just any actress, but the brilliant, tempestuous Broadway deity of the teens and '20s, who ran for four years as Sadie Thompson in Rain, lived with tigerish passion, and died at 35 in a gutterdam-merung of hooch and heroin...
...mark with a tour by the late, swanlike Anna Pavlova, but Nippon stayed off its toes until after World War II. In 1946 the occupation forces blessed a performance of Swan Lake-all four acts of it-staged by a pickup Japanese troupe. It was headed by a tigerish young dancer named Masahide Komaki, who had studied ballet with Russian refugees. The production had a grand total of only 22 dancers (v. 64 for Sadler's Wells' Swan Lake today). Optimistically booked for one week, the show sold out for two; it hit Tokyo on the ballet button...