Marmein Dancers
The Marmein Dancers were an American vaudeville act and early proponent of avant garde dance performed by the sisters: Irene, Miriam and Phyllis Marmein. Early years The Marmein Dancers were the daughters of Henry J. “Happy Jack” Marmein (1862-1930), a Chicago area real estate broker who later became an owner of the Gold Bug Mining Company of Arizona and Anna Engleton (1877-1949),New York Times April 11, 1949 in later years a well known lecturer and teacher of philosophy, drama, art, music and language. Irene, the eldest, was born on February 4, 1894, in Peoria, Illinois. At the age of 15 she became the first schoolgirl to recite the United States Declaration of Independence, Declaration of Independence during the annual Fourth of July celebration held at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Miriam was born on July 28, 1897, sometime after the family moved to Chicago. Phyllis was born on July 4, 1908 in Boston. The youngest of the three, she joined the Marmein Dancers sometime in the ear ...
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