“If you don’t have money, you can’t dance.”

Abstract Catherine is hired by William Goldman to stage dances for the Stanley Theatre in Philadelphia. Goldman becomes her boyfriend. At the Mastbaum Theatre, she is appointed assistant to dance director Robert Alton. The Littlefield School moves to the Fuller Building. William Dollar, Douglas Coudy, and Thomas Cannon, students of Mikhail Mordkin and Ethel Phillips in Philadelphia, join Catherine’s ensemble. Mommie takes Catherine, Dorothie, and other dancers to Paris to train with Russians Lubov Egorova and Alexandre Volinine. In Paris, the sisters become friendly with choreographer George Balanchine. The Littlefields move to an elegant home in the Wynnefield neighborhood. Catherine hires Alexis Dolinoff to dance in H.P. (Horsepower), a ballet-symphony by Mexican composer Carlos Chávez in collaboration with Diego Rivera, Frances Flynn Paine, and Lincoln Kirstein. Conducted by Leopold Stokowski in March 1932, H.P. is the first piece of choreography attributed solely to Catherine.