Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Hartford, an heir to the A&P supermarket empire. The original 1969 production was at the Belasco Theatre. It had nine previews and thirty-nine performances. Ron Thompson won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for his 1973 theater lead performance in the play "Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?" The play enjoyed a 2002 revival at the Looking Glass Theatre in New York, where it was directed by Michael LoPorto. It is a regular on the community and school theater circuit and in acting classes. The play helped launch the career of Al Pacino, who won a Tony Award for
Madonna del Parto and Child, but known as a Madonna del Parto because it was especially associated with devotions over pregnancy. Here the Virgin wears the Girdle of Thomas, a belt of knotted cloth cord that was a relic held in Prato Cathedral, which many depictions wear. The most famous work showing this subject is a fresco painting by the Italian Renaissance master Piero della Francesca, finished around 1460. It is housed in the Museo della Madonna del Parto of Monterchi, Tuscany, Italy. Piero della Francesca finished it in seven days, using first-rate colors, including a large extent of "blu oltremare" obtained by