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INCOMPARABLE NIJINSKY: Sir Compton Mackenzie in Greece; anthology of Henry Miller; and this week's fiction

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1960
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1128 | Page: 33 | Tags: Review 

The CINEMA

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1931
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1566 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The CINEMA

... 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 ...

Published: Saturday 31 October 1931
Newspaper: The Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1566 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

The Iron Age

... NOVELS. A FAMOUS RUSSIAN DANCER'S WIFE INTERNED AT VIENNA MME. NIJINSKY AND HER LITTLE DAUGHTER. M. Nijinsky, with his wife and little daughter, Kyra, were interned at Vienna, but Nijinsky himself was released and allowed to go to America, chiefly through ...

Published: Wednesday 19 April 1916
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 431 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

A £4,000 Novel

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 13 January 1937
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1192 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

Memoirs of a Fire-eater

... 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 ...

Published: Tuesday 23 October 1934
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1221 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A VARIED SELECTION OF NEW BOOKS

... famous equestrian statue itself is still in the country THE TRAGEDY OF NIJINSKY-- the greatest of all men I dancers Nearly thirty years have gone by since the I career of Vaslav Nijinsky was brought to an end through I a mental breakdown. He was then only ...

Published: Saturday 22 December 1945
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1745 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

The Great Diaghileff

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 31 July 1935
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1182 | Page: 28 | Tags: Review 

BOOKS IN BRIEF

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 20 June 1956
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 248 | Page: 56 | Tags: Review 

M. Dolin puts the record straight

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 21 December 1960
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 837 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

Music and all That ...: English Opera and Foreign Composers

... 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 ...

Published: Wednesday 11 October 1933
Newspaper: The Bystander
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 999 | Page: 26 | Tags: Review