Evening star., 1934-04-08
NIJINSKY. BY Romo.a Njinsky, His Wife
New York Simon & Schuster.

he Stlu lives. AL 80 ne became
insane and for the past II years he has been
withdrawn from life, in Swiss sanatorium
most OF the time. "day-dreaming increasingly,
but without the loss of his memory" His
wife, in writing his biography and study of
his art has at the same time, with apparent
Inconsistencies, revealed in herself an ex-
ample of unusual devotion and self sacrifice.
Though herself actress and writer, the
daughter of Emilia Markus famous Hungarian
tragedienne, she Subordinated her career to
his and since his came to an end has sought
for every possible means to restore him to
normal life and his art.
The most important influence in NijinSky's
artistic life Diaghileff (whose biography
Nine. Nijinsky gives at some lengthy. man
of almost universal talent who had become
the artistic dictator of ST. Petersburg. At
the suggestion Of Nijnsky he organized, from
the nucleus CT the ballet of the Mariinsky
Theater. the Russian ballet and took it to
Paris; and about the most powerful
Russian invasion the modern world had
known" Diaghilef completely dominated
Nijinsky we told until the marriage of
the dancer. Nine. Nijinsky to
dstrust the influence of Diaghileff to
slider it almost satanic. 1t was not mere
feminine jealousy which caused her to ALLEVIATE
her husband from the impresario; she saw
that Nijinsky's genius was being curbed and
his personality enslaved by Diaghilef
The World War left an evil mark on Min
sky. He was held as prisoner in Hungary.
where he with his wife during the Summer
of 1914 and was denounced to the police as
a spy, probably by mis- wifes relatives. His
triumphant American tour and New York
season followed this and did much to restore
his ef-confidence. After tours in South
America and Spain, he and his wife settled
IN st. Moritz as war refuge. Then Nijinsky's
capriceS and eccentrictieS began to change
to wildneSS and violence and soon his real
personality was gone. Paul Claudel former
Ambassador from France to the United States.
in his foreword to the biography, speaks of
Njjinskys dancing as "the possession of the
body by the spirit and the utilization of the
animal by the SOUL He first Nijinsky
at Rio de Janeiro and was impressed that "he
walked tigers do, it the supple
alliance with weight of body that is
not trunk or statue, but the complete organ
of power and movement"
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