Word: midi
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...natural auditorium in a nook of Fairmount Park called Robin Hood Dell. The crowd acclaimed Conductor Alexander Smallens, stood up politely while his men played "The Star Spangled Banner," then sat down to listen, with mounting enthusiasm, to the Overture to The Flying Dutchman, Prelude a I'Apres- Midi d'un Faune, Richard Strauss's Don Juan and Brahms's C Minor Symphony...
...York. It was the first time that theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great Sacre du Printemps with its white bearded barbarians and sonorous gongs...
Reaction. Other Frenchmen had a word to say. Said the Paris-Midi...
Carl Randal's dancing was usually thoroughly amusing and his "L'Apres Midi Don Juan" with Gortrude McDonald was distinctly superlative. The chorus depended more on its pulehritude than its dancing ability and the substitution was not unpleasant...
...United States is recalling capital from Europe," declared the Paris-Midi, "in preparation for organizing another speculative rise in Wall Street...