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The CINEMA

... Lifar and Massine, I decided to look on as Nijinsky. And Diaghilev trained him and taught him and breathed his soul into him and made him the world's greatest dancer. nijinsky'S love. Now Diaghilev expected Nijinsky to have, like other dancers, his amours ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1931
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1566 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The CINEMA

... Lifar and Massine, I decided to look on as Nijinsky. And Diaghilev trained him and taught him and breathed his soul into him and made him the world's greatest dancer. nijinsky'S love. Now Diaghilev expected Nijinsky to have, like other dancers, his amours ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1931
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1566 | Page: 28 | 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 

A £4,000 Novel

... faults when people begin to help me. The diary is signed God and Nijinsky. Appended to the book is an appeal on behalf of the Nijinsky Foundation. One of its objects is to provide for Nijinsky, who now lives in a Swiss Nursing Home in a kind of mental twilight ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1192 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Memoirs of a Fire-eater

... specialists, his chapters on the greatest of the choreographers, Nijinsky, Fokine, Balanchine, and Massine, are likely to become the standard authority. No one who has read Mme. Nijinsky's recent book on her husband should miss Mr. Haskell's chapter on ...

Published: Tuesday 23 October 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A VARIED SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS

... famous equestrian statue itself is still in the country THE TRAGEDY OF NIJINSKY-- the greatest of all men I dancers Nearly thirty years have gone by since the I career of Vaslav Nijinsky was brought to an end through I a mental breakdown. He was then only ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1745 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

The Great Diaghileff

... Haskell rightly describes how immensely more important was the part of Diaghileff than the part of Nijinsky in the spread of the Ballet over the world. Nijinsky was a great dancer. But I have always felt that the peculiarly fortunate assonance of his name ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1182 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

Music and all That ...: English Opera and Foreign Composers

... Debussy's L'Aprbs-tnidi d'un Faune reminded me far more of Nijinski's original than the performance of Serge Lifar at the Savoy some months ago. It was, of course, intended to be the Nijinsky arrangement, though it seemed less spontaneous. Fortunately ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 999 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review 

AN AMAZING SEA VOYAGE: The Story of a 9,000-Mile Journey Across the Pacific in a Small Open Boat

... Continental doctor, Dr. Manfred Sakel, has almost cured the world-famous Russian dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, who has spent twenty years in a mental home. Nijinsky is now forty-eight years old and hopes to start dancing again after another final treatment in ...

Published: Saturday 02 December 1939
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1949 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

CONRAD WITH THE LID OFF: African Adventure--Diaghileff--Carr on Cricket

... Russian ballet is so popular and successful, the time is ripe for this corrective, written by Mr. Haskell, to appear. Madame Nijinsky's life of her husband (written last year), though obviously prejudiced, did much to observe Diaghileff's artistic achievement ...

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