... Russian ballet between their public and private professional engagements are being lionised by sections of London Society. M. Nijinsky was the leading attraction at a studio tea in Yeoman’s Row, among those who attended to meet this lion of the season, being ...

... first week of autumn season has just reached me. It begins next week with three davs of Russian ballet, in which Kar. savina Nijinski and the Imperial “Troupe will he seen in Rimsky-Korsakova’s She- “Le Pavillon Teherepnin’s Schumann's “ Carnaval,” and Giselle ...

... ghost is a little disquieting, extraordinarily clever thougn such trick-work is. The stars—Madame Karsavina as Giselle and M. Nijinsky as her lover—are extremely polished and beautiful dancers. Naturally their solos and duets won the usual applause. The second ...

... of the first rank, the corps de ballet itself being a perfect combination. There is Mme. Karsavinr and the incomparable M. Nijinsky. for instance, but the irresistible figure was Pav- lova, and she is such a little thing too! What- ever misgivings may have ...

... pieces, in which the dancers suggest, now in solo, now in duet, and occasionally with a number, the moods of the composer. Nijinsky was thf* only male dancer in this series ; he was dressed in black and white, and the ladies in white. The work here approximated ...

... Some Names few names are necessary. Pavlova and Nijinsky are popular favourites, and I think rightly. Pavlova, of course, had start the other principal ladies. including- Kchessinska. who is a great Russian lady and dances before the C/ar when she inclined ...

... five ballots Mine. Karsarvina danced in four, 'the last found her as nimble of toe an kpirited and graceful as the first. B, Nijinsky danced “solo tenor” parts, as il were, in three, and he and the prima dnnmk already named, with the other * principals ‘iw]m ...

... and peculiar beauty of fonn.’' That is all very well—the four tennis player? would probably muke picture-but if the gentle Nijinsky wants to give us something really worth seeing will produce ballet depicting a hapless golfer in deep and straight faced ...

... Jeax,” and Florent Schmidt’s Tragedie, de Salome.” The artists comprise the famous basso, Chaliapine, Madame Kousnietzoff, Nijinsky, and Karsavina. Influential support has been secured. ...

... Mention of Drury Lane brings us music, and the Russian performances, which have ended the season, have been best part of it. Nijinsky has been “Jeux,” “L aprcs midi d’un Faune,” and “ Le Sacrc du Printcmps,” making claims for choreography as a serious art ...

... watges. Whilst toying with miniature rifle, Beniamin Bofttian, aged 18. was shot through the heart Newport, Monmouth. M. Nijinsky, the famous Russian dancer, has been married Buenos Ayres a young Hungarian dancer with whom fell in love on seeing her execute ...

... under the village pump on a snowy Christmas morning. Harlequin was dressed to resemble Nijinsky, and Columbine Karsavina, but they did not have much to do, Nijinsky being mainlv engaged in hilling people on the back with a flat piece of wood. The carryings ...