Word: fauns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...regular Friday afternoon and Saturday evening Symphony Hall concerts will offer a varied program embracing the two above mentioned Bach preludes; Beethoven's Symphony number six, the "Pastoral"; a new score, "Danza," by John Alden Carpenter; Debussy's "L' Apres'Midi d'un Faun"; the scherzo to Mendelssohn's "Midsummer Night's Dream" and the prelude to Wagner's "Meistersinger...
...removed made him feel more airy. In 1924 Christ Panduoro lost his money, returned to San Francisco to begin again in the embroidery business. Paul Haakon studied with Theodore Kosloff, made his debut in a San Francisco vaudeville house. In 1927 in Manhattan he danced as a faun in Cleopatra, managed to get in Pavlova's troupe a few months before she died...
...Byard Taylor gave her first one-man show at the Georgette Passedoit Gallery. Critics who had never heard of her before were charmed by a number of figures in mahogany, walnut, bronze, pottery, modeled with sure fingers and considerable masculine purpose. In particular they inspected approvingly a leering bronze faun with the shoulders and back muscles of Sculptor Taylor's brother...
...from 1200 B. c. and valued at ?10,000. And there was plenty more: Ming vases. T'ang burial figures, carved jades, Hawthorn jars, gold, bronze and ivory figures, in all about 3,000 pieces bought for Britain this month at a cost of ?100,000 from a faun-faced elderly Greek named George Eumorfopoulos...
...attachment for Turner. While working for Gilmore Oil Co. as an aerial advertiser, he acquired a 450-lb. lion cub which flew everywhere with him and helped to get his picture in the papers. Better known than this pet is the Turner uniform-robin's-egg-blue tunic, faun-colored whipcord breeches, Sam Browne belt, black riding boots and a gold-and-crimson flying helmet...