“Here came these five beautiful Littlefield girls, good dancers all.”

Abstract Lincoln Kirstein brings George Balanchine to America to start a ballet school (SAB) and professional company (the American Ballet). Needing dancers, Balanchine visits the Littlefield School and successfully recruits seven Littlefield students and Dorothie Littlefield to take part in his ballet initiatives in New York. Holly Howard becomes his first American muse and Dorothie becomes the first American and first woman to teach at SAB. Dorothie leaves SAB because of unrequited love for Balanchine and unhappiness with his casting of her. Big Jim dies unexpectedly in 1934 and Mommie moves to a modest Cobbs Creek row house. In the summer of 1935, Catherine premieres the third scene of her first major original ballet, Daphnis and Chloe.