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Miss Hancock Dances for Profit IPuts ‘John Hancock’ to Contract0, „►u ' lt;Sr- ArZ£AfeMiss Mercedes Hancock,16 Years Old, Who Has Decided to Become a Professional Dancer.Chicago Descendant of famous Family to Understudy Grand Opera Danseuse.Since the day this country started ithas never found itself in a tight placewithout some one named Hancock closeat hand to show the way. Chicago hasfouud itseif of late sorely perplexed to determine which of the new dances should be mastered. And little sixteen-vear-old Mercedes Hancock, daughter of Mrs. A. J. Hancock of 4414 Michigan | avenue, is showing the way. She is a j looked upon to-day by expert dancers as ! the premier danseuse of Chicago, with the possible exception of liossini Oalli of the Chicago Grand Opera Company, whom she has been engaged to under-i study. .tt | Along about the time this country re-a_ fused John Bull us a future dancing part-'e ner. one John Hancock, ancestor of Miss !(1 Mercedes, made his signature forever fas' mous by sticking it under the Declara-T tion of Independence. And then in the t- midst of the Civil War, Winfield Scott •s ; Hancock, grand uncle of Miss Mercedes, n led the union troops in the campaign u preceding Gettysburg, ner grandfather it [ is Senator Thomas Hancock of NewJersey. #7 JjL , - . / *Miss Mercedes i/'* startled Chicago by ie hor grace and skii. in dancing ami has •J recently appeared at a number of pri-vate entertainments. Now, like “Uncle H Joe” Cannon’s niece, she will turn her ‘s ! skill into profitm 1 I IT T\ i -r
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Chicago Examiner
Chicago, Illinois, US
Sun, Mar 29, 1914
Page 111
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