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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... Comus is vivid, vital, electric and worthy of the finest mime (I have said it before and shall probably say it again) since Nijinsky. In the course of the piece he delivers two passages from the poem with a cadence and an under standing that are rarely found ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... our Edwardian uncles did when Russian beauties eclipsed the racy frivolities of the Empire and Alhambra, and Pavlova and Nijinsky first twinkled in the heavens that incomparable Adeline Genee and nimble Fred Farren had previously adorned. Modern ballet ...
... 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 ...
... Simmons, Dean Jagger, Arthur Kennedy, Shirley Jones, Patti Page.) The boohs Autobiography, by Anton Dolin. (Oldbourne, 30s.) Nijinsky, by Francoise Reiss. (Black, 30s.) The Best Of Henry Miller, by Laurence Durrell. (Heinemann, 30s.) Mathematics In The Making ...