DANCER

   Went to a parochial school as a little girl and graduated when just sixteen. Her first stage appearance was as a Quaker girl the summer 1906 in the revival of "Miss Bob White" for $12 a week. Florence Walton was a dancer and actress in the early 1900s. Florence made her stage debut in Lew Field's "The Girl Behind the Counter" dancing and singing in the chorus in 1907 and would later become a Ziegfeld girl.

   Walton first learned the chorus dances, then the character dances such as the Spanish, Dutch, and the Italian Tarantella etc.

   Walton met Maurice Mouvet when Flo Ziegfeld approached her with the suggestion that she partner with Mouvet (his partner eloped during 'Over the River'.) In the evening they met, practiced some and danced that night in "Over the River." Upon finishing, Ziegfeld partnered them together for the "the Rose Maid" and then the "Pink Lady" in 1911.

   Walton and Mouvet were later married in 1911 and were divorced in 1920. Her most famous partner was Maurice Mouvet who was one of the best dancers of the day. The main dances they were famous for together was the Apache Dance, Tango and Maxixe. After her divorce with Mouvet, Walton meet and married Leon Leitrim, who she continued to dance with for many years.