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later I got am [an] engagement to dance in a quartet you see the managers came to the school & picked me with 3 other girls but & the other had all traind two to theree years & I only just there 4 weeks to 5. and the mothers kicked and said it was not fair that I a new girl should get such a good engagement But thoes mangeres and taken a fancy to me and insisted on having me I did not say no although I did not know my right leg from my left so off we went on tour for two month with a women from the dancing school (Stedman where Pavlova took Hilda Butsova, Enid Bruco◊◊◊, Phyllis Shellton, Madge Abercrombie, Lucida Luidonskia, and then I came from there with no training), to chaperone us. Then when I return I wanted to work again but no practice so I got another egagement with Mr. Zalezski from Mme P. Co. who engaged 8 girls but the number only worked two week in this Co I ment my husband who was doig pantomime we got very became very good friends Then I returned home again (London) And there Lydia Kyasht a very famous dancer wanted a women to play the part of mother in the Ballet Javotte, Well Louis knews he had the

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