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...companion, never smiles, never speaks. A quietly dressed Hungarian woman arrived in New York last week with a trunk full of paintings and sketches to remind the world that the silent man in Switzerland was once regarded by many as the greatest dancer in the world. His name is Vaslav Nijinsky...
...theatregoers had seen a stage decorated by artists of the first rank: Derain. Picasso, Leon Bakst. Ladies in panniered hobble-skirts went into ecstasies over Nijinsky's performance of the Firebird, the Blue Bird, the Slave in Scheherazade, L'Apres-Midi d'un Faune. It was Vaslav Nijinsky who staged and introduced to the world Stravinsky's great Sacre du Printemps with its white bearded barbarians and sonorous gongs...
...return he went to live in St. Moritz, and there, because he could not dance, he began to draw: dance movements, sketches of his daughter, his servants.* It was one of the servants who had been with Nietzsche when that philosopher went mad, who first realized that Vaslav Nijinsky was losing his mind. Nijinsky never became violent, though U. S. newspapers several years ago carried a story that he had been seen trotting round and round a tree under the im pression that he was a horse. He has always had painting materials in his room in the Bellevue Sanitarium...
...Vaslav Nijinsky was by no means unique in turning from dancing to painting. Dancers in the U. S. who have been converted to camas include Paul Swan and Hubert Stowitts. Slim, classic-featured Mr. Swan used to perform rhythmic rites in dark theatres on Sunday nights. Now he covers large canvases with intricate designs, all highly symbolical. Before he turned to painting racial types of India Mr. Stowitts attracted considerable attention in the Parisian press by posturing at private parties completely nude and painted blue. Historian Hendrik Willem van Loon's son Willem Gerard van Loon reversed the process...
...reason is that during the Lausanne Conference of 1923 (at Lausanne, Switzerland) the Russian representative, M. Vaslav Vorovsky, was assassinated. His alleged assassin was acquitted by a Swiss Court. For four years the Swiss Government has refused the kind of apology demanded by the Soviet Government. Ergo, no Soviet "observers" have come to League Conferences...