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...Zak Zaradov...
...shrilled as Russian bombers and fighters poured over. Hobnailed Nazi boots clattered across the five airy, soaring bridges. (The sixth, St. Margaret, was reported wrecked by a premature explosion, killing 1,500 persons.) The rich and the fearful were streaming toward Austria. The kávéházak (coffee houses) were shuttered and gypsy music was still. Budapest was paying the piper...
...sharp-eyed scout for Leicester Galleries wandered into the Galeries Zak in Paris and saw six pictures by a young German girl, just purchased by Mme Zak. Painted in monotones of grey, tan and pink, in a style heavily reminiscent of Marie Laurencin and spiced with Degas and Renoir, were pictures in a musicomedy adaptation of 1900 costumes: drinking at cafes, riding on merry-go-rounds, many another simplified scene. Almost immediately the artist, 26-year-old, blonde Suzanne Eisendieck, became a ward of the Leicester Galleries, and a story straight out of La Vie de Boheme turned toward...
...attention of Dietz Edzard, a young artist with an ingratiating manner and amiable eyes. Artists Edzard and Eisendieck soon became the best of friends, began to paint so much alike that laymen now have some difficulty in telling their work apart. He it was who interested Mme Zak in his friend's paintings, saw her proudly through a typical Leicester Galleries opening last June, attended by everybody from hatchet-faced Lady Oxford to the Baroness d'Erlanger and Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. All the Eisendieck pictures were sold within a week...
...found him last May in the Gallery Zak in Paris-a long, lean, morose Frenchman by the name of Mouillot...