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Following the lead of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, Chicago's City Opera last week decided to change its ballet next season. Invited to replace slim-limbed Ballet Mistress Ruth Page was Philadelphia's blonde Ballerina Catherine Littlefield...
Abroad. The same night that Mary Binney Montgomery pretended to be in Paris, Philadelphia Dancer Catherine Littlefield, her former teacher, actually was in Paris, winning even greater praise for her ballet impressions of the U. S. The Littlefield troupe had gone abroad early in the summer, expecting to be the first U. S. troupe to do so (TIME, Feb. 22). Everywhere they went they were a sensation. In Paris they danced eleven times in a week. President Lebrun attended opening night. U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt, himself a Philadelphian, kissed Catherine Littlefield on both cheeks when the performance...
...eight-week season was to feature Lily Pons singing three arias and Soprano Erica Darbo in an elaborate production of Strauss's Salome. Ambitiously the later repertoire included a telescoped Ring, a possible Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, ballets by Mikhail Mordkin's troupe and by the Littlefield troupe, now performing in Europe (TIME...
From that nucleus grew the Littlefield Ballet, later the Philadelphia Ballet Company. When, in 1932, Stokowski gave the world premiere of the Mexican ballet H. P. (see col. 3), Catherine Littlefield plotted the choreography. Alexis Dolinoff danced the lead. When the Philadelphia Ballet ran short of men a year ago, Catherine Littlefield signed up her air-pilot brother, Carl. Last week he made a graceful Prince-from-the-West, easily outstripped the other minor characters. Another Littlefield, young sister Dorothie, also filled in ably...
Bills for the Philadelphia Ballet are paid by Catherine's rich husband Philip Leidy. General opinion was that the Sleeping Beauty cost him $10,000. Mr. Leidy, who loves ballet as much as the law he practices, first met Catherine Littlefield when she was dancing for the Philadelphia Grand Opera which his mother supported. Nobody knows how much their European tour will cost next summer. Miss Littlefield will take her troupe to Paris, Brussels, The Hague and London. She boasts that hers is the first U. S. ballet to venture into Europe...