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...grace and ease were no longer in his step and his round Slavic face showed the pallor of years of illness and the vacuity of long insanity. Dressed in a dark blue suit, which looked incongruous on him, he shuffled aimlessly along with his male attendant, and Romola, his devoted wife...
Vaslav Nijinsky, lithe, high-leaping ballet great of 30 years ago, reported slain as a madman by the Nazis last May, turned out to be living in a bomb-blasted Vienna hotel. His wife Romola told reporters that he had almost regained his reason when he left a Swiss asylum in 1940, but life in air-raided Europe had set him back again. At 55 he looked 70: his cheeks were sunken from a near-starvation diet (he lost 40 pounds in the past four months). A reporter could hold his attention only by drawing him doodles. Yet, though...
...years in a Swiss insane asylum, Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky in 1937 began to show marked improvement, was released last fall, is now living in Adelboden, Switzerland. Last week pictures reached the U. S. showing Nijinsky once more in the normal world: accepting a glass of wine from his wife, Romola, looking speculatively at a bin of vegetables in a Swiss market place, in concerned conversation with friends, smiling warmly (for months at a time he never smiled...
...DIARY OF VASLAV NIJINSKY- Edited by Romola Nijinsky-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). Last intelligible words of the great dancer, written in the year before his commitment to the insane asylum, making a grisly study which occasional overtones of schizophrenic humor do not relieve...
...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 on the tragic biography of her husband. No such swift-moving dramatic tale but a rich, fat history of the dance was this week published by Lincoln Kirstein. It proved him no idle dabbler in the subject but an enthusiastic scholar, equipped with information worthy of one twice...