DANCER DESTITUTE
TOOK LONDON BY STORM FUNDS NOW EXHAUSTED (Times Air Mail Service) LONDON. Nov. 20 Vaslav Nijinsky, who in 1913 took London by storm with his ballet dancing, and for years has been in a Swiss nursing home, is now described as “destitute,” says the Evening Standard. His health became affected in the last war and his personality seemed to divide into two parts. For years the fees at the Swiss nursing home have been paid by a special fund raised by his admirers. All along his wife—a former Hungarian society beauty—has watched for a return of his sanity. Now Nijinsky may have to go back to his native Russia if further money for his support is not forthcoming. “Nijinsky is in a state of utter destitution,” I was told by Lady Juliet Duff, the vice-chairman of the Nijinsky Foundation. “The war has exhausted our funds, and a benefit performance which we hope to stage in London cannot now take place. “There is a prospect of his restoration to a fairly normal state of health.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20995, 23 December 1939, Page 17 (Supplement)
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