... of balleto manes, or simply audiences, about Nijinsky. To this day he is regarded as the incomparable male dancer, his interpretation of roles unique and his comprehension of new methods amazing. Nijinsky was neither tall, slender nor gooa-iooKing. un ...

... Dostoievsky, Nietzsche and T. E. Lawrence seem to fit his category of men who see the human condition too clearly, while Nijinsky has to be much distorted, and it is odd to find Sartre and Ouspensky as bedfellows. Episode By Harry Bloom. (Collins; 13s ...

... Fields, the late Queen Mary and Diaghilev's tomb. I should have doubted whether there was room for yet another book about Nijinsky, but here one is Nijiiisky, by Francoise Reiss. Here again are the schooldays, the un real, sudden and wordless ship board ...

... ) The boohs Life In The Theatre, by Tyrone Guthrie (Hamish Hamilton, 25s.). The Diaghilev Ballet, by Grigoriev; Nijinsky, by Romola Nijinsky; Stonehenge, by R. J. C. Atkinson (Penguin, 5s. each). Death By Drowning, by Robin Daniel (Gollancz, 10s.). Muscle ...

... Penguins, including Grigoriev's enthralling memoirs of The Diaghilev Ballet, Romola Nijinsky's infinitely alarm ing and to me repellent biography of her tragic husband, Nijinsky, and a superb book on Stonehenge by R. J. C. Atkinson which had me breathless with ...

... the world to-day even if a few people are still left to sigh for the lost golden age of Pavlova, Karsavina, Diaghilev and Nijinsky. Of all the screen versions of Soviet ballet which bave found their way to London within recent years, Trio-Ballet is probably ...

... Ritual In The Dark is an immensely long, weird novel without punctuation marks about a young man who is writing a novel about Nijinsky's state of mind and falls in with a queer person called Austin who commits some nasty murders out of a kind of inverted ...

... begin with Selway and Kijooka (if they can find him). ILLEjHES COLLECTION OF DR. HENRY ROLAND MANCHESTER CITY ART GALLERY Nijinsky dancing. A Rodin bronze in the Roland collection ...

... gate of Hell, a number of f- heads and torsos of tremendous pora dozen extraordinarily expressive dan and a single danseur-- Nijinsky in ac L'apr&s-midi d'un faune. Comparison with Degas's bronze dancers underlines the amazing fluin these danseuses, a quality ...

... Beak's permission. Through the book stalks the ominous figure of Big Serge, soft- voiced and keeping a dreadful eye glued to Nijinsky, Massine, Lifar, Markevitch, in that order. Richard Buckle has edited the book, and it is hard not to attribute some of its ...

... of Vaslav Nijin- sky (Cape, 18s.) edited and pre faced by his wife, is an agon izing little document in grow ing insanity. Nijinsky tells of his fear of Diaghilev, of how his poor wife cries, of his con versation with doctors, of his overmastering belief ...

... In the Royal Ballet's production Margot Fonteyn and Alexander Grant dance the roles created by Tamara Karsavina and Vaslav Nijinsky. The whole production has been supervised by M. Grigoriev, who was Diaghilev s rigisseur, and Mme. Tchernicheva, who was ...