Word: dufay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Much of their music is litle known and comes directly from moldy manuscripts. Covering many centuries and many countries the repertoire of the Trio includes such composers as des Pres., Obrecht, Dufay, Dunstable, Orlando di Lasso and de Machaut...
...Dufaycolor Ltd., of London. Behind this film lay long years and millions of dollars of experimental work. Patient sponsors were London's venerable Spicers Ltd., makers of fine paper. The idea stems back to a crude geometrical color screen constructed in France 25 years ago by Louis Dufay. But so complex is the perfected method that some 500 patents were necessary to bring it up to the commercial stage. And it would not have been possible if the researchers had not had at their disposal the best modern panchromatic, high-speed, fine-grained emulsions...
Interested spectators during the week-long convention were dapper Bill Robinson, Negro, who at 52 wears rakishly the undisputed crown of king of all living tap-dancers; Ziegfeld's Harriet Hoctor, S. L. ("Roxy") Rothafel, famed Balletman Chester Hale, Dancers Patricia Bowman, Grace Dufay, Evelyn La Tour, Ramon & Rosita, Adelaide Hall...