Word: semenoff
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Dates: during 1932-1932
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Girandoles and red plush, champagne and rich grey caviar, pretty Moscow women and gay music-it is a long way from all that to a lonely flat in Cleveland, Ohio. So it seemed to Nikolai Semenoff. Born in Russia some 50 years ago. he had entered the Imperial Ballet School at 8. In the Imperial Ballet, and in the triumphally trouping Sergei Diaghilev Ballet Russe-with its décors by Bakst, Picasso, Derain; its music by Rimsky-Korsakov and Stravinsky; its surging choreography-Dancer Semenoff had taken part, close friend and assistant of Director Michel Fokine. When the Revolution...
...modern and smart. Cleveland applauded importantly two years ago when Doris Humphrey of Manhattan's Dance Repertory Theatre, lecturing at the art museum, called the ballet "an artificial type of toe-dancing." German Dancer Mary Wigman brought to Cleveland her stark rhythms, her "rich speech of the body." Semenoff, intensely devoted to the oldtime ballet-school style, muttered that she was "devoid of grace, devoid of soul." He at least would make his pupils worthy of the old Imperial School. But his pupils, who had once included many a rich man's daughter, and such stars as Actress...
Dancer Fokine telegraphed the Police in Cleveland and Niagara Falls: "FIND SEMENOFF. . . ." But Nikolai Semenoff had already spent a night at the Temperance House in Niagara Falls, walked out next morning, doffed hat, top coat and stick, laid them neatly on the shore. Helpless witnesses saw him plunge off Table Rock, go over the brink in his last and bravest pirouette...
Died. Nikolai Semenoff, 50, Russian ballet dancer; by jumping into Niagara Falls...