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“Mommie was the sparkplug and Catherine was the inspiration.”
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Mommie opens a dance studio in Llanerch and teaches for the Philadelphia Music Club at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the 1920s. Big Jim teaches horsemanship to wealthy men at private riding clubs. Catherine becomes a Ziegfeld dancer and performs in Sally and the Ziegfeld Follies. In New York, she studies with Italian pedagogue Luigi Albertieri. She leaves Ziegfeld’s employ and she and Mommie take their first trip to Paris. Big Jim forms News Reel Laboratory with partner Louis Kellman. Mommie opens a Littlefield School at 1415 Locust Street across from the Academy of Music. Catherine teaches there and raises its standards. She also serves as Mommie’s première danseuse. Mommie directs the “America” pageant at the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition.
Title: “Mommie was the sparkplug and Catherine was the inspiration.”
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Mommie opens a dance studio in Llanerch and teaches for the Philadelphia Music Club at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel in the 1920s.
Big Jim teaches horsemanship to wealthy men at private riding clubs.
Catherine becomes a Ziegfeld dancer and performs in Sally and the Ziegfeld Follies.
In New York, she studies with Italian pedagogue Luigi Albertieri.
She leaves Ziegfeld’s employ and she and Mommie take their first trip to Paris.
Big Jim forms News Reel Laboratory with partner Louis Kellman.
Mommie opens a Littlefield School at 1415 Locust Street across from the Academy of Music.
Catherine teaches there and raises its standards.
She also serves as Mommie’s première danseuse.
Mommie directs the “America” pageant at the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition.
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