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Romola would also like to get her daughter Kyra in the movies. But Kyra, who is 33 and runs a ballet school in France, wants to dance. Says Romola: "I don't advise anyone to dance. You train for 20 years and are famous for three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nijinsky in Surrey | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Kyra Nijinsky, almond-eyed, 30-year-old dancing daughter of the fabulous Vaslav Nijinsky,* having survived two Nazi imprisonments, was holding ballet classes for WACs in Florence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Nov. 6, 1944 | 11/6/1944 | See Source »

...Grand Duke Vladimir's brother-in-law, Prince Louis Ferdinand, who is the eldest living son of the late Crown Prince of Germany. He married Vladimir's sister Kyra in 1938. Adolf Hitler is said to have encouraged the marriage and to have suggested that he might make Louis Ferdinand the Russian Tsar. In the '20s agile Louis Ferdinand studied as an apprentice mechanic at the Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. Before World War II he was a pilot for Germany's Lufthansa airline and he has recently flown with the Luftwaffe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GERMANY: Pretenders Forward | 7/7/1941 | See Source »

...Emperor in Germany, Wilhelm and Hermine have pinned their hopes to the monarchist faction of the German Army. No longer do they hope to get the throne for themselves, but want it for Wilhelm's favorite grandson, Louis Ferdinand, the onetime Detroit Ford worker who married Grand Duchess Kyra of Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wilhelm's Solution | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...Granddaughter-in-law Kyra he regards not as a Russian, but as a member of a sort of supernational European royalty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Wilhelm's Solution | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

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