Catherine Littlefield : a life in dance /
Born in Philadelphia in 1905, Catherine Littlefield first learns dancing from her mother, Caroline (called Mommie), an expert pianist, and from a local dancing master, C. Ellwood Carpenter. As a teenager, Catherine becomes a Ziegfeld dancer and takes lessons from Luigi Albertieri in New York. She re...
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Table of Contents:
- "I had never had a dancing lesson in my life, but somehow, I knew I could train those other children, and I did." / Caroline Doebele Littlefield ; "The whole family was so enthusiastic and so colorful and so interesting." / Elizabeth Goldsmith ; "Mommie was the sparkplug and Catherine was the inspiration." / Peggy Becker ; "What a lugubrious tale!" / Fanya Levene ; "If you don't have money, you can't dance." / Angelo Pinto ; "She was 9/10ths a performer and 1/10th a wife." / Thomas Cannon ; "Here came these five beautiful Littlefield girls, good dancers all." / Yvonne Patterson ; "There is going to be a permanent ballet company in Philadelphia." / Catherine Littlefield ; "Now I know that it was really real." / Ruth Sefarbi ; "We took 25 curtain calls and the stage looked like a florist shop." / Leonard Ware ; "Her ballet, Barn Dance, was the first truly American balletic composition that we have ever seen." / Walter Terry ; "An enormous macédoine of musical comedy, patriotism, and burlesque, spangled with American history-that is 'American Jubilee.'" / Anonymous ; "For Broadway one must be clever and Catherine Littlefield is very clever." / Anonymous ; "It is only 8 o'clock-the sun is streaming in and God is good." / Catherine Littlefield.