#toe dancer

Baby Toe Dancer & Baby Tippytoes

Toe Dancer is the younger sister to Twinkle Dancer. Toe Dancer often finds herself quite jealous of the older dancer, as all her friends tend to want to follow Twinkle around and watch her dance most of the time. Toe Dancer is training hard to one day surpass her sisters skills in ballet and prove she is just as good, if not better than her.

“We thought Uncle Dixie was a very grand person. He was sort of a Gene Markey of New York – went everywhere, knew everybody. His apartment was the rendezvous of all sorts of interesting celebrities….Of course, we met everybody there, which is how I happened to come in contact with one of the producers for the Music Box Revue who was looking for a little blonde toe dancer. Luckily I had been studying dancing and dramatics both at the Testoff-Seryoa and with Juliette Knott. The family, of course, were highly incensed at the idea of my becoming a toe dancer. Mother stood on her hind legs at first, but when the Music Box Revue turned out to be the most beautiful show in New York, she didn’t feel so badly.” — Miriam Hopkins

Source: Mayme Ober Peak (1931)