The Rockettes Violette Holmes at Radio City Music Hall Holmes, Violet performer Theatrical Performance 1945-07-05 Radio City Music Hall The first performance as a Rockette by Violet Holmes who remembers standing still and bent like a doll to show how it was when the curtain went up on Victor Herbert's music from "Babes in Toyland" and the Rockettes began as toy figures and she herd her first applause simply for standing still. They eventually moved into a march: "the marines always went over big"; a high-kick finale. Performing Arts Encyclopedia http://www.loc.gov/performingarts Tap Dance America http://lcweb2.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/html/tda/tda-home.html tda IHAS 151216 loc.music.tda.2222