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MUSIC OF THE WEEK

... discovered to be the last word in abstract music, I still prefer it in its former aspect. I wonder how many people remember Nijinsky's amazing choreography. I have just been looking up what I wrote of it in the old, old, far-off days, as the chorus of beavers ...

Published: Saturday 10 March 1923
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1187 | 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 PLAY'S THE THING: An Excursion into Variety--Old Memories Revived at the Empire--Rodeo at the Coliseum

... of lawn tennis the theatres have given us in the past have never suggested anything very expert. I always felt, when I saw Nijinsky in Jeux, that I could beat him 6-0, 6-0, 6-0. Harry Tate's burlesque a year or two ago was a frank exhibition of incompetence ...

Published: Saturday 26 July 1924
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1884 | Page: 18 | Tags: Review