... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... with him altogether, for in the pages of the book he more than once gives a warning against the extra vagance of some of Nijinsky's per formances. The volume is well illustrated by Rene Bull in colour and black-and-white and beautifully bound. The publishers ...