... ) 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 ...

... 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 ...

... and that reader would be hard to please indeed who did not find therein much to appreciate, much to remember. Nijinsky /7rVie Art of Nijinsky, by Geoffrey Whitworth (Chatto and Windus. 3s. 6d. net), is an admirable little monograph. The present book, ...

... 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 ...

... in terms of ballet were very banal is hardly fair. They won the high praise of Voltaire, and were no more banal than is Nijinsky's un- classic interpretation of so classic a gem as Debussy's L'Apres Midi d'un Faune. He is on surer ground in his description ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...