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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THE CINEMA: Valentino Redivivus

... and hers! But in the way that Walkley who found all male dancing morally repugnant could maie an exception in favour of Nijinsky, so on the understanding that Valentino is strictly an exception, one may quote about him the old lines of Carew He that ...

Published: Wednesday 03 August 1938
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1407 | Page: 8 | Tags: Review 

The PASSING SHOWS: The Royal Opera

... at the Coliseum at Christmas, and that Narcisse was almost perfectly done, except that I missed the exotic personality of Nijinski as the youth. Petroushka, Les Svl&hides, Pabillotis, L'Oiseau d'Or, Carnaval, all these lovely ballets have been danced during ...

Published: Wednesday 28 May 1919
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1599 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

ENTERTAINMENTS à la CARTE: Mr. Cochran's 21st

... in which the speed-mania of the times is recorded by bitter lyrics blared through a microphone, and is symbolised by Kyra Nijinsky's clever dancing on a stage restless with quivering shadows. Even six turns, meanwhile, would be too many for Streamline's ...

Published: Wednesday 24 October 1934
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1491 | Page: 72 | Tags: Review 

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 ...

DRAMA An Unhappy First Attempt at the Ambassadors: Mary Newcomb Gives Renewed Proof of Her Versatility

... I congratulate him on veering so gracefully from Sir Galahad to Bluebeard, the Marquis de Sade, and the Faun of Debussy (Nijinsky version). Miss Marie Ney, who is a consummate artiste, never forced the note. Her struggles to preserve calmness as death ...

Published: Saturday 11 April 1936
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1669 | Page: 30 | 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