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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 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... of the factors in its development The mainstay of the company were the four dancers, Anna Pavlova, Karsavina, Fokine, and Nijinsky. All played important parts in Diaghilev's life, and contributed greatly to his creative activity But of these four whales ...

Published: Wednesday 15 January 1941
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2255 | Page: 24 | 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 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 

At the Sign of the Cinema

... the minor characters are delightfully sketched in. Sunday Wilshin, as the blonde beauty who scornfully betrays the amateur Nijinsky Winifred Shotter, graceful and appealing as the charming, dimpling dancer with whom he pairs off Kenneth Kove, in his customary ...

Published: Wednesday 27 May 1931
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1145 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE MARIONETTE SEASON, AT THE SCALA; HER CARDBOARD LOVER, AT THE LYRIC; THE DEVIL'S HOST, ..

... Circus, there is something bewitching in these ballerinas in their gauze skirts. No step is beyond them, and not even a Nijinsky can surpass their brilliant technique. The puppets have no human limitations save that imposed on their masters pulling the ...

Published: Wednesday 05 September 1928
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1398 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: LITTLE REVUE, AT THE LITTLE

... for the sake of antiquity, and are neatly spoofed by a guileless old lady a ballet rich in colour broken by Jack Hulbert Nijinski-ing in evening dress and topper a double cartoon of how cards are played in Mexico, and at the house of a Mitcham undertaker ...

Published: Wednesday 17 October 1923
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1689 | Page: 31 | Tags: Review 

Criticisms in Cameo: THE FLAME, AT WYNDHAM'S

... as far away from the women of Pinero and Sudermann as the Never-Never- Land is from the nursery. This Peter, wigged d la Nijinski the Faun, sturdy of limb, decisive of gait, yet light-footed as the ubiquitous bunny, with playful mischief in his eye and ...

Published: Wednesday 23 January 1924
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1592 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

THE LITERARY LOUNGER

... has studied classical dancing, and enjoyed a big success in the East, in America (tvhere he has been hailed as the Indian Nijinsky), and in Paris. In his own country he is recognised as the most talented exponent of the muscular control and rhythmic ...

Published: Wednesday 26 July 1939
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 2397 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review