Word: diaghilev
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...head the ballet school Impresario Merola wisely chose Adolph Bolm who used to dance in the peerless Diaghilev troupe with Karsavina, Mordkin, Nijinsky. What the school has accomplished in less than two years was demonstrated one night last week before all the Californians the opera house could hold. The dancing they saw was expert, technically sure. And more, it had escaped from the musty routine which stales most opera ballet. With equal spirit and understanding the Bolm dancers did a classical Chopin Reverie, a weird Chinese folk drama and a Ballet Mecanique for which they wore costumes of wood, Cellophane...
...Russe heaved a silvered wooden hammer at the head of a gilded wooden nail (which he hit), history was also made. But history of a lighter mood. Union Pacific, the first U. S. ballet to reach the repertory of the great Russian school of dancing made famous by Serge Diaghilev, had had its world premiere...
...Monte Carlo Ballet Russe has aroused fresh talk of his genius (TIME, Jan. i). Next week will be published the story of Nijinsky's life, written by his wife.* Romola de Pulszky was a 17-year-old Hungarian schoolgirl when she first saw Vaslav Nijinsky dance. Sergei Diaghilev had taken the Russian Ballet to Budapest. Karsavina was with the company. So was Kshessinskaya, the Tsar's favorite who had an imperial retinue of her own, wore diamonds and emeralds the size of wal nuts. But it was Nijinsky who made the Hungarian girl decide against the dramatic career...
...genius for discovering new talent. Once, she says, a doctor warned Nijinsky that he had a curious glandular arrangement but she slides over this point in her effort to set up Diaghilev as the cause of Nijinsky's madness. Diaghilev was so jealous that he refused to let the dancer have any friends outside his own inner circle. Wlu'le others were paid prodigious salaries, Nijinsky was given only enough to take care of his mother in St. Petersburg. When the Ballet started for Rio de Janeiro, Diaghilev's fear of the sea kept him in Europe...
...NIJINSKY, by Romola Nijinsky-Simon & Schuster ($3). *An entrechat consists of flicking the heels together in the air. With the exception of Nijinsky, his wife says, no modern dancer has been able to do more than eight. *Diaghilev can never prove his innocence. He died five years...