After John Tiller died in 1925 Mary Read continued with the Tiller Girls in America, signing a very profitable contract with RKO studios with many of the girls working in American made films and dancing all over the USA. Many of the girls married and settled in...
John Tiller died on the 22nd October 1925 in New York. Obituary in the New York Press read “Died. John Tiller, 71, in New York of asthma, famed English coach of numberless dancing units of “Tiller girls,” who cavort upon the revue stages of the U. S....
The John Tiller Girls were the inspiration for the world famous American kicking line, The Rockettes.  At the time John had a troupe of girls performing in New York called the Tiller Rockets. Russell Markert, founder of the Rockettes quoted; “I had seen the John...
John Tiller opened a dance school at 226 West 72nd Street with offices and a training studio run by Mary Read; a Head Tiller Girl from England who had been one of the 1916 Sunshine Girls in America, She trained American pupils as well as the girls from the United...
By 1923 John Tiller’s reputation built on the high standards of precision dance was at its height and his dancers were in demand all around the world. Charles Dillingham and George White had visited The Palace Theatre in London and booked the girls to appear in...
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