Constance Tomkinson

A Nova Scotian and the daughter of a clergyman, CONSTANCE TOMKINSON wasin her early twenties and eager to see the world. After she studied ballet with Martha Graham in New York City, she went abroad determined to pay her way’ by dancing. The techniques which she learned from Miss Graham did not altogether prepare her for the requirements of the Folies Bergère. but she “trouped" all over the Continent, and from her experiences has come a book of recollection, Les Girls, which will be published this month by Atlantic-Little, Brown. The following article is adapted from a chapter which describes Miss Tomkinson’s experiences in Italy.

A Nova Scotian and the daughter of a clergyman, CONSTANCE TOMKINSON was in her early twenties and eager to see the world. After she studied ballet with Martha Graham in New York City, she went abroad determined to pay her way by dancing. The techniques which she learned from Miss Graham did not altogether prepare her for the requirements of the Folios Bergère, but she “trouped” all over the Continent, and from her experience has come a book of recollection, Les Girls. The following article is adapted from a chapter which describes Miss Tomkinson’s adventures in Germany; next month the Atlantic will present her experiences in Italy.

A Nova Scotian and the daughter of a clergyman, CONSTANCE TOMKINSON was in her early twenties, eager to see the world, and lacking only the cash to do so. She had studied ballet with Martha Graham in New York City; under the more seemly pretext that she was going to England to study drama, she actually went abroad determined to pay her way by dancing in any chorus that offered. The techniques which she learned from Miss Graham did not altogether prepare her for the requirements of the Folies-Bergère.