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	VIRGINIA MYERS - DANCER - DAUGHTER OF JEROME AND ETHEL MYERS

Virginia Myers is a child of the century. Already at the age of six, she is a dancer of note.

-- Vogue, 1912

She is an exquisite dancer.

-- New York Globe, 1914

She is a finished creative artist.

-- New York Review, 1915


		"VIRGINIA MYERS is considered by people who know, one of the greatest emotional dancers of the time.”

			-- New York World, June 20, 1915


	VIRGINIA MYERS, born October 21, 1906, before she was three years old, danced spontaneously, in rhythmic grace, in the studio of her father, Jerome Myers, the painter, and her mother, Ethel Myers, sculptor. These dances had such beauty and originality that very quickly she had gained a coterie of admiring poets, musicians and other artists.


	By request, she danced a solo for charity at the Plaza Hotel at the age of four.

		Shortly afterwards she was brought to the attention of Ruth St. Denis, who pronounced her art a perfect creative product.

			After studio recitals in her parents' studio in Carnegie Hall failed to accommodate her ever increasing admirers, a series of theatre recitals ensued, lasting until her thirteenth year; beginning at the old Berkeley Theatre on 44th Street and ending at the Princess Theatre on May 1919.




		*Virginia and Ethel*


	The Morning Telegraph, 1912 VIRGINIA MYERS at the age of five years is a great artist. It leaves one feeling that here has been seen not a little dancing child, but the fleeting soul of a great artist - a mist of transcending genius, that vanishes even as it is viewed, but which remains.


	New York American, 1912 VIRGINIA MYERS in Art, Literature and Dramatic circles is called a great tragedienne and compared to Elanora Duse and the "Divine Sarah." The fact is that Virginia has upset all calculations.


	THE EDISON FILM COMPANY DISCOVERS THE YOUNG VIRGINIA MYERS






	New York Evening Sun, January 4, 1913 She creates her own dances and becomes one with the soul of the musician who inspires her.


	Vanity Fair, 1913 Among the myriad dancers - both professional and amateur - in New York today, perhaps the most picturesque and spontaneous is VIRGINIA MYERS.


	These were necessarily private subscription performances, owing to her age and the law that prohibits a star under sixteen.




	For the three intervening years Virginia studied at the Art Student's League, making many compositions of the figure in dance; also studied at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and at the New York College of Music she studied harmony, to give her originality a background; so that with her sixteenth year she could give dance concerts of her own creations, both here and abroad.


	Virginia at 14


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