Word: midi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week, to begin a tour which will take it to every one of the United States, was the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe. For the first time in the U. S. the Monte Carlo dancers presented the great shocker of the great Diaghilev era: L'Après-midi d'un faune, designed and danced by Vaslav Nijinsky not long before he became so addlebrained that he was interned in a Swiss sanatorium. Last week handsome David Lichine impersonated the spotted faun, gyrating insidiously, blatantly suggesting, as did his predecessor, the throes of sexual desire, the moment...
...newspapers with proletarian audiences screeched at Countess Barbara Hutton Mdivani Haugwitz-Reventlow when the Paris-Midi reported that she had paid Singer Ganna Walska $1,200,000 for a collection of emeralds which Napoleon III once gave to his mistress, the Contessa di Castiglione. Next day the reported purchase was denied, and in the U. S. arrived first pictures of the christening in London of Countess Barbara's burly three-month son Lance. Held up for photographers at the door of Marlborough House Chapel, gurgling Baby Lance showed less resemblance to his sleek parents than to his chubby grandfather...
...they are usually interlarded with propaganda. Typical were the pictures shown along with The Plow That Broke the Plains in Washington's Mayflower last fortnight: an excerpt from The Triumph of the Will, directed for Adolf Hitler by Leni Riefenstahl (TIME, Feb. 7); an institutional reel called Midi dealing with the French railways; a Russian Harvest Festival which depicts the Ukraine as a merry place; Color Box and The Face of Britain, respectively glorifying the British Post Office and the social effect of water power...
...many Germans and lead to rumors that some be-monocled old-school diplomat of the Wilhelmstrasse must write them. But Adolf Hitler confronted face to face by a foreigner is also different from Adolf Hitler overpowering a dazzled German. To Berlin last week, hastily summoned from Paris, hurried Paris-Midi's correspondent de luxe, M. Bertrand de Jouvenel, son of the late, great French Senator & Ambassador Henri de Jouvenel. In Paris the Chamber had just voted to ratify a Franco-Soviet military alliance (see p. 18). Herr Hitler did not want it to pass the French Senate and become...
...Boston Symphony in giving the fifth concert in its Sanders Theatre series tonight. The program consists of Beetheven's Sixth Symphony (the Pastoral), Debussy's "Prelude a I' Apres-midi d'un Faune," "Till Eulcnspiegel's Merry Pranks," by Richard Strauss, and Professor Piston's Concerto for orchestra. Of these, the first three have already been performed this year at the concerts in Boston. The concerto by Mr. Piston, who is sometimes known as a "classicist," was composed in 1933 and was recently played by the Boston Symphony in New York. It will be remembered that the Second String Quartet...