The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-12-30
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Do you dance? I beg your pardon. Of course you do, unless you happen to be minus a perfectly good pair or legs and twinkletoes or stranded on the Fiji Islands Even then, some body would certainly be doing q wild, weird pas seul," for life every where, 1t would seem in the last few years, has resolved itself into some sort of dance.
 We are Tn. the erfu of the choreo- graphic (nice word that. isn't it2) art, and 1t looks as if we'd never get away from 1t; besides. who wants to, for when dancing is properly and gracefully executed and artistically and aesthetically portrayed, there is nothing more lovely and nothing riore refined and nothing more en- joyable.
 Yesterday, I had peach" of a talk with "LaBallerina' of the Greenwich Village Follies. "Japo- nette" is her name, and she's tall and graceful and lovely as lily-a Tiger lily" would say-with her swarthy complexion and her big dreamy brown eyes and wave after wave of coal black hair, which rip pies softly away from her broad forehead and thin hair<line eye brows.
 "Japonette" is 19 and of curious eccentric slenderness. and really per haps looks taller than her middle stature, combing her black halr smoothly back from her forehead making her face look longer, too, than 1t really is. and her mouth, which Is in constant state of ex- pressive mobility, and her smile, h {rh {c pnnpanf f forced but always natural, gives her an exotic appearance, which prompt ed me to ask if she was of foreign birth.
 To which she replied proudly:
 "No, indeed; I'm New England girl, born and bred in Hartford, Conn.,, and l am proud to say that l am an Americana 100 per cent American because America is the best country in the world"
 How on earth did any girl. New England born with New England pa- rents and New England grandpa rents and great grandparents, and all of them with New England con sciences, ever get on the stage, much less become a premier danseuse? l asked curiously.
 Everybody asks me that ques- tion," said "Japonette" quickly. and always tell them that I'm not sur prised at the question, because New England consciences are the worst sort of consciences, and those of my parents and my grandparents re- belled frightfully at the very idea of the stage, but that didn't deter me because 1 had dreamed since I was little girl of being a dancer. and at 12 I remember great event in my life was marked by a dream I had. l dreamed that l saw myself on the Metropolitan Opera House stage in the ballet, and that my name was billed in great headlines as 'Japonette.' so when I went on the stage a little later I took the name of .Japonette.'
 And did your dream come true of being a member of the ballet at the Metropolitan Opera?" I asked.
 "Yes and mo- said Japonette pret- tily. "I was given an audience with the master of the ballet at the Galli Is the premiere danseuse, and was accepted. I was then told that it would require two years appren- ticeship for me at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet school before l could appear as a dancer. I thought the matter over and decided that 1t was ! too long a period for I was very lm- patient, and wanted to start at once. So l took a course of instruction un- der the Russian ballet master. Ivan Tarasoff. and finished my course in much quicker time than if I had