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...himself as a life-long balletomaniac who studied dancing to understand its difficulties. He quarreled with Diaghilev over his last ballets and Diaghilev never forgave him. He describes Diaghilev's weaknesses: his sexual abnormalities, his greed for sweets, his crazy superstitions, his countless inconsistencies. But in the Machiavellian persecutor which Madame Nijinsky portrays Critic Haskell takes no stock. An incompetent dancer, she schemed her way into the troupe-a fact which Mme Nijinsky admits herself. His fellow dancers always . . thought Nijinsky unbalanced. Diaghilev kept him from the world because as a sheltered, brooding introvert he did his finest work...
Through three rather long acts interest is maintained by shifting the object of attention subtly and effectively. First the persecutor's alibi depends upon a green chartreuse bottle, then an overcoat button, and finally upon establishing the presence of the same blood on a pair of gloves and a knife. Suspense rises to a pitch at the end of the first scene in act three; the last two scenes are lamentably weak perhaps because of their brevity. The author has injected several squibs in the Shavian manner, such as "today women are either supermen or twittering neurasthenics," which neither pass...
...France, Germany or Great Britain, he would not even be a popgun. For we are not yet a Nation but just an aggregation of races, culls-as it were. . . . The historic role of all religions, when their power is equal to their holy malice, is that of a Persecutor. When they can no longer use, the faggots and screws they use franchises and senators. I have three special aversions. They are Meddlesome Methodists, edifying editors and righteous realtors. No law shall ever prevent me from eating and drinking when and whatever I please. The old Romans put their amphitheatres...
...this quiet and traditionally Texan shooting may indeed be praised. But in its practice, details must develop that are judicially questionable. A bandit, hardly willing to identify himself as a justifiable target, must be shot, first and approached afterwards. Again, he must be shot, for the safety of his persecutor, at a reasonable distance. Sent from the hand of an excitable person evisioning rewards, the bullet is more than likely to pass through several estimable citizens before it reaches some suspect later found both innocent and dead. The weapons of prohibition agents have taught the country the menace...
...into a world of pure illusion. But, as a girl in the fifth row said, "Still an' all, he is good-looking." Padlocked (Lois Moran and Noah Beery). Here is a typical concession to the popular flair for denouncing everything puritanical. A reformer is represented as the fanatical persecutor of his lovely wife and daughter, both 100% virtuous by nature. The reformer, nasty-minded, looks upon lawn tennis as vice. Eventually he is made to see that the source of all evil is restraint and the source of all sweetness and light is in the freedom denied by reformers...