Elisabeth Schooling

Her first solo role was as the Bride in a 1934 ballet entitled Mermaid, which was choreographed by Susan Salaman and Andrée Howard, using music by Ravel.

[3] Also in 1934, it was noticed that Schooling had a very similar appearance to the barmaid in Édouard Manet’s painting Un bar aux Folies Bergère.

Marie Rambert’s husband Ashley Dukes suggested there might be a ballet around the picture, also introducing can-can dancers.

[3] In 1939, Staff created Czernyana which used Czerny's piano exercises as the basis for a series of dances which caricatured different ballet styles.

[3] Schooling finally married her fellow Ballet Rambert dancer Frank Staff in 1942, having appeared in his early choreographed works.