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...Lincoln Kirstein at 28 is a tall, tense, bold-faced esthete, rich because his father is vice president of Filene's department store in Boston. At Harvard (class of 1930) young Lincoln Kirstein and Edward Warburg, another rich man's son, started a Society for Contemporary Art, exhibited painting, sculpture, photography. As an undergraduate Kirstein founded the magazine Hound & Horn, kept it intellectually alive until 1934 when dancing became his dominant interest. With Edward Warburg, Kirstein then founded the School of American Ballet (TIME, Dec. 17 et seq.). Although he took no credit, he collaborated with Romola Nijinsky...
...medieval chapters Author Kirstein makes much of the fanatic Dance of Death which he calls a tombstone to medieval mentality. It was at the time of plagues that Death appeared as "a graveyard ghoul, a chilling spectral horror . . . frightening now only to listeners of ghost stories or children whistling past cemeteries." Its influence was tremendous. When the bubonic scourge swept Europe in 1373 wakes for the dead assumed an insane gaiety. While germs raged, one male dancer would feign death and a bevy of girls would hover around him, attempting to kiss him back to life. Such aberrations were widely...
...Diaghilev epoch was a long one, done almost to death by ballet enthusiasts during the past few years. Author Kirstein never knew the great impresario but from the testimony of many of his associates he has been able to paint him as a man with surly grandeur, a magnificent snarl, a staggering, penetrating, shrewd instinct. Diaghilev assembled talent which spoke for the best in music, painting, dancing. Pavlova was with him for a time, but she soon formed her own touring company, so built around her own personality that she succeeded in spite of ragged musical accompaniment, shoddy, second-rate...
...independent ballet (Casella's La Giara) been given at the Metropolitan. Last week Manager Johnson made ready to cash in on the current popularity of ballet. He announced the engagement of the American Ballet, the lively organization founded by Edward M. M. Warburg and Lincoln Kirstein, with Russian George Balanchine as director (TIME, Dec. 17). From the present Metropolitan ballet, Balanchine will add to his group of 27 dancers, according to Manager Johnson, "the best dancers, the best-looking ones, and those with the best extremities...
...Judd, H. M. Kidder, D. H. Kimball, W. A. Kirstein, F. A. Lavey, L. S. Levenson, S. R. Linscott, D. R. Lit, D. P. McAllester, D. B. Malone, T. V. N. Marsters, C. C. Means, C. D. Mietzelfeld, W. J. Moore, J. L. Morrisson, W. Morss, A. W. Nelson, C. S. Oakman, D. E. O'Reilly, W. R. Pierson, E. D. Piper, E. H. Porter, J. Preston, D. Prouty, J. A. Rich, C. R. Richmond, E. H. Risley, S. W. Rudnick, E. L. Saenger, H. F. Schmidt, R. W. Scott, R. S. Shaw, C. C. Smith, R. I. Smith...