Amilcar motor show was cancelled and the launch was postponed – as matters turned out indefinitely – due to the intervention of war which France (and Britain) declared against Germany in early September 1939. Production of the Amilcar was not resumed after World War II. Isadora Duncan's fondness for flowing scarves was the cause of her death in 1927 in an automobile accident in Nice, France. The famed American dancer was the passenger in an Amilcar CGSS when her silk scarf became entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, breaking her neck. Amilcar The Amilcar was a French automobile manufactured
Nina Anisimova (dancer) Nina Anisimova (dancer) Nina Aleksandrovna Anisimova (Russian: Нина Александровна Анисимова; born St Petersburg, 27 January 1909, died Leningrad, 23 September 1979) was a Russian dancer and choreographer. She studied at the Petrograd (later Leningrad) Ballet School with Maria Fedorovna Romanova, Alexander Shiryaev, and Agrippina Vaganova. In 1926 she graduated into the Maly Theatre of Opera and Ballet, then from 1927 to 1958 danced with GATOB (later Kirov Ballet). In 1932 she created the role of Thérèse in Vasily Vainonen's "Flames of Paris", demonstrating her abilities as a character dancer. In 1936 she choreographed her first major ballet, "Andalusian Wedding" (music