The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-03-28
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we'll known Colonno Concert, proposed
 that the "Tableaux symphoniques"
 should be played, but eoriously enough. it was from the composer himself that he encountered opposition
 NJ. Fanelli wanted one of his latest works to be played. Finally however, he gave in, and left Sunday night his "Tableaux symphoniques" was performed for the first time.
 When only few bars had been played. the eyes of many of the musicians filled with tears, and at the end of the per formance the whole of the orchestra rose with the audience and gave M Fanen an enthusiastic ovation.
 The composer, who had listened with the tumult at his heart expressed in his face, got up in his place and. with his body shaken with sobs. threw himself in the arms of the conductor.
 The next morning, says M. Perne, learned that Fanell had had nothing to eat that day. He had not a sou in his pocket.
 | Some symbolism must have been sug- gested to any person with imagination 1 by the grand annual meeting of the Needle sociasy in the huge hall of the Trocadero. In the chair was the grave historian, NJ. Thureau- -Dangin. Perpetual Secretary" of the French Academy, and | by his side was Count Albert de Nun, | leading speakesman of the Royal Cath ollie party in Parliament. and one of the | best speakers in France. Around them or below them in the hall were women of fashion in wonderful dresses side by side with the girls who had made the dresses.
 "L'Aiguillen is a society for bringing | together Capital and Labor in the l dressmaking trade and employers and employed alike belong to it. This was | the coming of age of the society, being Its Fist annual meeting. After the report was read. savings bank books were distributed among deserving girls. Then the grave historian. M. Thureau- Dangin. got up and spoke in praise of the midinette. A learn cd and serves, perhaps rather as dry as dust scholar. delivering an academic euosy of the girls who make Paris fashions. was perhaps one of the most French things one could be present at or could listen to. It was a sort of equtome of France from the Academic Francise to the Rue de Ia Paix. the one represented by it's perpetual Secretary the other day by the girls who eat their lunch from carts in the intervals of dressmaking between noon and one clock and thus earn the charming name of midinettes Mechanically eloquent, NJ. Thureau- Dangin spent as much Of his academic upon praising the midinette as if he had been in the academy on some forensic
 occasion. and. the mldinettes. who did not understand half his long words. applaud ed him furiously. taking that delisht in we'll turned rhetoric. which is instinctive in the simplest French breast What he said was, as matter of fact true.
 though he said fl rather grandiloauently. He spoke of the honesty. the purity. the
 courage the charitabeness, the endur-
 ance. and the hard work of the midinette.
 that fairy with the ninnbe fingers, he
 exclaimed. There is probably more hard
 work done and quicker intelligence em-
 ployed by the midinette. other things he
 ing equal. than by any other manual
 worker in the world" After they had
 anpiauded their acarenIc panegyrist
 Count de Nun. unfortunately, not being
 irdnced to sneak. the midnettes exer-
 cised the right ~of suffrage and elected
 their officers and committee for the year.