In the beginning of February of 1916, a Los Angeles-based dance company was held over for an additional week of performances at the Palace Theatre, a top vaudeville house in New York. As reported in the New York Dramatic Mirror on February 12, 1916, "Ruth St. Denis is the dancing sensation of the year at the Palace… It is estimated that not less than five thousand people were turned away last week… The Keith p…
SOURCE: The New York Public Library at 04:16PM on February 5, 2016