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Hundreds of ballet lovers, even some from California, traveled to attend the performance. They were loud in praise of Catherine Littlefield who directs the troupe, plans its choreography, serves as its premiere danseuse. They marveled that 100 dancers and the 85 musicians of the Curtis Institute orchestra could make such a large fairy tale so lively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sleeping Beauty | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

...spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sleeping Beauty | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Philadelphia has long been thankful to the Littlefields who make it eminent in ballet. Catherine Littlefield was born there 32 years ago. She began to study in her mother's dancing studio when she was 3. At 16, she got a job in Ziegfeld's Sally, later studied in Paris, went back to Philadelphia to head the ballet of the Philadelphia Grand Opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sleeping Beauty | 2/22/1937 | See Source »

Returning lettermen and candidates for the hockey squad reported at the first meeting of the year last night in the Varsity Club. They were addressed by Coach Stubbs, Coach Hodder and Dr. Littlefield...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Squad Reports | 11/8/1935 | See Source »

...president, chipped in what they could, pledged themselves to give a full season even if they had to play to the shrubs and trees of Fairmount Park. They scheduled opera in English, Gilbert & Sullivan, "pop" and symphony concerts, ballets by Fokine, Humphrey-Weidman and Philadelphia's Montgomery and Littlefield dancers. They promised to honor unused tickets left over from last summer's fiasco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Summer Nights | 7/8/1935 | See Source »

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