... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... doesn't she see that criticism's business with Astaire's acro batics is to de cide whether in their medium they are as good as Nijinsky's dancing or Ras- telli's juggling? Or, if you like, John Roberts's billiard playing or W. G. Grace's batting. Nobody in ...

... wonderful blue costume excited, quite rightly, gasps of admiration. But in Le Spectre de la Rose he does not come anywhere near Nijinsky, and his posturings in the Beethoven ballet, Prometheus, though they must have taken years of practice, were often both ugly ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...