Word: toreadors
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...three days a train chugged Ambassador Jean Herbette to Moscow, where he was met by Chief Protocol Floninsky, the French Chargé d'Affaires and a guard of honor and was conducted to the French Embassy to the strains of a military band playing the Toreador's March from Carmen. M. Herbette was amazed, expected the band to play the Marseillaise, but was told that foreign national anthems are forbidden in Russia. Bolshevik reporters called a few minutes later at the Embassy; to them the Ambassador said...
Once upon a time folk-dances were common. Flaxen-haired madchens whirled before the Bohemian alehouse; Russian peasants brought in the harvest with a grand clicking of heels; and the toreador's wife turned exultant somersaults in the market place, while her husband slew the bull. Each of these was a primitive expression of emotion. The skips and contortions the ballet stage are all that now remains of these old-time dances. The originals have been so greatly modified and "aestheticized" by the professors of terpsichorean that their originators would scarcely recognize them. The folk-dance was natural; the imitation...
...Prophete" Meyerbeer 2. Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart 3. Waltz, "On the Beautiful Blue Danube" Strauss 4. Fantasia, "Mephistofele" Bolto 5. Tempest Scene from "Othello" Verdi 6. "Spring" Grieg 7. Aragonaise from "The Cid" Massenet 8. Overture to "Sakuntala" Goldmark 9. Excerpts from "Carmen" Bizet a. Toreador's Song b. Gypsy Dance 10. Marche Miniature Tschaikowsky 11. Cortege from "The Queen of Shebn" Gounod
...Barton Leach '22 a winning address and, except for a certain insistent springiness of motion, an excellent lover. Mr. C. S. Howard's otherwise admirable Marquis of Torrelodones is marred somewhat by an irritating resemblance to Sam Bernard. This could easily be remedied. Mr. Leonard Ware '21 looks the Toreador to a T. enriching the precession and giving it vivid authenticity. Mr. F. C. Packard '20 is one waiter in a thousand; and Mr. Cyril McNear '20 makes a handsome idler...
...remarkably fin portrait by Goya has been lent to the Fogg Art Museum and placed on exhibition in the Gallery. The portrait represents the Toreador Romero and is a striking characterization. It is painted in warm grays, black, white, and violet, with a bright not in the rose colored lining of the sitter's jacket, and is executed with great subtlety and refinement of technique...