Mariam McGlone
American dancer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Mariam McGlone was an American dancer, dance critic, and educator. Biography Born January 20, 1916, in New York City, daughter of Russian emigrant parents Abraham and Bertha Gessler Siwek, Mariam McGlone trained in classical ballet, entered Barnard College for a semester but left to join The Humphrey Wideman Company, led by Doris Humphrey and Charles Wideman and subsequently became an early member of the Martha Graham company in Manhattan. During the years leading up to World War II, she worked in Hollywood performing in various films, among them Winged Victory, and training actors and dancers. During World War II she took a job in Chicago working for Variety magazine where she met her husband James McGlone Jr. a yacht racer and early Volkswagen dealer. They married in 1945, moved to New York where she established a studio in Manhasset on Long Island and for several decades, wrote dance criticism and launched what became a long-running lecture program in New York City, The Dance, Scene.
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