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ROUND THE THEATRES

... Ltd., 49 Old Bond-st., W. Miss Lydia Lipkovska, by Campbell Gray; Miss Frances Kapstown, by Hana; Mdlle. Karsavina and M. Nijinsky. and The Quaker Girl in Paris, by Bert, Paris; The Girl who Couldn't Lie, by Daily Mirror Studios Investiture of the Prince ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... played in fro.it of Mr. Stanley Houghton's play, Trust the People, at the Garrick Theatre. Mdlle. Karsavina. M. Max Frohman. Nijinsky. The new ballet at Co vent Garden. Le Dicu Bleu. The music of this ballet, produced under Mr. Thomas Beecham's direction ...

THE LIBRARY: QUEBEC

... rather than criticism, and though, naturally, a considerable proportion of the volume is devoted to an appreciation of Nijinsky's dancing, Miss Terry sums up a critical point of view in many an apt and picturesque phrase, as when, speaking of the dancer's ...

ROUND THE THEATRES

... is also coming to Drury Lane during the season mentioned, the hundred artists including people such as Mme. Karsavina, M. Nijinsky, and M. Bolm, whom readers will remember as having fascinated thousands of people so often at Covent Garden Theatre. The ...

THE LITERARY LOUNGER: THE ORCHESTRATION OF COLOUR: THE ART OF LÉON BAKST; The Coming of Léon Bakst

... phases and fashions over-seas, had heard it. Then the dancers were at Covent Garden revealing not only their Karsavina, their Nijinski, and the rest, but decor and dresses which invited criticism, yet baffled it. Costumes and scenery, indeed, were scarcely ...

Published: Wednesday 25 June 1913
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1254 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

THE RUSSIAN BALLET

... in terms of ballet were very banal is hardly fair. They won the high praise of Voltaire, and were no more banal than is Nijinsky's un- classic interpretation of so classic a gem as Debussy's L'Apres Midi d'un Faune. He is on surer ground in his description ...

Gift Books in Brief: Suitable for Presentation

... with him altogether, for in the pages of the book he more than once gives a warning against the extra vagance of some of Nijinsky's per formances. The volume is well illustrated by Rene Bull in colour and black-and-white and beautifully bound. The publishers ...

Published: Wednesday 03 December 1913
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1667 | Page: 60 | Tags: Review 

Literature--The Books of the Christmas Season: The Haunts of George Borrow

... and that reader would be hard to please indeed who did not find therein much to appreciate, much to remember. Nijinsky /7rVie Art of Nijinsky, by Geoffrey Whitworth (Chatto and Windus. 3s. 6d. net), is an admirable little monograph. The present book, ...

Published: Saturday 06 December 1913
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 3525 | Page: 54 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERÀRY-LOUNGER: THE RUSSIAN BALLET CREATED BY ISADORA DUNCAN: THE ROMANTIC REBELLION; Isadora Duncan's Part

... art they had known. It was not long before the new ballet took shape. M. Fokine became its head amongst the dancers were Nijinsky, Bolm Pavlova, and Karsavina later recruits were Mordkin and Volinine from Moscow. In alliance were such composers as Glazounov ...

Published: Wednesday 10 June 1914
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1078 | Page: 20 | Tags: Review 

The Iron Age

... NOVELS. A FAMOUS RUSSIAN DANCER'S WIFE INTERNED AT VIENNA MME. NIJINSKY AND HER LITTLE DAUGHTER. M. Nijinsky, with his wife and little daughter, Kyra, were interned at Vienna, but Nijinsky himself was released and allowed to go to America, chiefly through ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 431 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review