HERO WORSHIP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 254, 25 March 1914, Page 5

HERO WORSHIP.

RUSSIAN DANCER IDOLISED. Times-Sydney Sun Services. London, March 17. "While the license in women's fashions is exciting very little protest here now, a strong feeling is being shown over the present craze for male dancing, as evidenced by the worship of the famous Russian dancer -Nijinsky. One newspaper boldly asks whether male dancing should not be manly, denounces what it calls the sentimental, languishing effeminacy of Nijinsky, and compared it very unfavorably with that of Mordkin, who danced, says this paper, like'a warrior. It goes on;—"In the older and Italian dances a man played a man's part, and did not squirm and wriggle like a sentimental miss. Nijinaky's dancing is otherwise. There is something about his love-sick, dying-duck attitudes that raises the ire of the healthy, normal man."

Despite all this Nijinsky remains a popular idol of male and female smart society. Last week the Marchioness of Ripon had him as an escort at a charity sale, when he appeared' among a whole company of both sexes, most of wliom forgot everything else in their yearning to attract his notice.

Nijinsky had to be taken away because business was impossible while he was present.