The first of these matinees was given on one of the Kaiser's farms, near the ancient city of Bonn, in 1896; and I was told the story by Sam Dennis, the Illinois Irishman who was in charge of the harvester.
On several occasions he has held harvester matinees for the benefit of his cabinet ministers, so that they could see with their own eyes the superiority of machinery to hand-labour.
There was capital music at her house, but not much conversation; and the auditors at her matinees were changed too often for an enduring acquaintance to be formed among them.
Frantz taught singing; and in the artistic matinees in the Rue de Douai he was occasionally engaged to recite a speech from the classical dramas, which the good-natured audience, as commonly happens at such gatherings, would warmly applaud.
There are women whose names appear in startling big letters on the bills of concert-halls who get nine francs a night for a turn of three songs with encores and three matinees a week, not including extra performances on fete days.
Sunday evening is always a crowded night at Parisian theaters and a hard one upon players, since all the theaters on that day give matinees as well.
In many of the cabarets it is the custom to give gala matinees and gala evenings with more celebrities than usual on the program.
When Chopin went before these matinees to Broadwood's to try the pianoforte on which he was to play, he had each time to be carried up the flight of stairs which led to the piano-room.
If anything exciting were going to happen they wanted to be there when it happened; so they went with Cynthia to all her affinity's matinees and occasionally to an evening performance.
These little people are devoted to the theatre, too, and may be seen in force at the matinees in the Apolo, Lara, and Zarzuela.
At these matineesmore than half the seats in the house are occupied by juvenile ticket-holders, from rows of vociferous urchins in the galleries, to round-eyed babies cooing over their nurses' shoulders.
They turned into Bond Street in which all the suburban ladies who were not enjoying the matinees were gluing their noses to the shop windows.
It was something to remember that matinees practically existed for women only--though attending one alone was unheard of in Phyllis' set.
The holidays were bad for theatrical business, and the prospect of a temporarily reduced salary and several extra matinees seemed to make this period an auspicious one for departure.
Girls went tomatinees in pairs apparently--always had--and apparently always would.
He went from matinees to soirees, and in ten days he appeared at thirty-four different entertainments.
The idea of starting a series of matinees of chamber-music occurred to me.
It was on the program of the Mason-Thomas matinees in New York more than once, and on one occasion we had the assistance of the well-known pianists Messrs.
Of course there were still the dinner-parties and the supper-parties and matinees for benevolent purposes.
Private fetes in the country correspond to matinees in town, and the same rules apply.
Matinees are usually held in the open air, in some good ground, in which a brass band should be playing, and plenty of good flowers displayed, embellished by the best dressed people it is possible to assemble together.
The piece ran for its eight matinees and was then heard of no more, but to Old Mole it had much value.
Sgambati and Pinelli announce six matinees of Chamber Music every Wednesday, beginning the day after tomorrow.
People are beginning to talk about these matinees in the aristocratic salons in which it is often de bon ton not to listen to good music.
He answered: "Quite willing if proposed arrangements about matinees are adhered to.
But there seemed to be nothing ahead, except two matinees a week with him at the Lyceum, to be followed by a provincial tour in which I was only to play twice a week, as Henry's chief attraction was to be "Faust.
She took the convalescents out for drives in the morning, and to matinees in the afternoon, and got up a variety of entertainments for those who were in bed.
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