14 APRIL 1950, page 13

Contemporary Arts

THEATRE "The Man With the Umbrella." By Louis Ducreux. English adaptation by Roma June. (Duchess.) THE best kind of tricks are tricks which comprise, or anyhow appear to......

The Death Of Nijinsky There Is No Doubt That Nijinsky

was a unique phenomenon. To have reached those heights in dancing to which he soared and to have at the same time created three ballets, each one a masterpiece of its own type,......

Ballet

" Ballet Imperial." (Covent Garden.) SINCE the announcement some weeks ago that M. George Balanchine would come to London to stage one of his works at Covent Garden, there has......