The Celebrated Spanish Dancer with her pianist and guitarist.
Eleanor Smith and Anton Dolin were responsible for bringing Argentinita to this country. Of pure Spanish extraction, she was born in Buenos Aires, but was still a baby when her mother and father returned to their native country. In Madrid, when she was six years old, she made her debut as a dancer of flamenco. She had studied under the most famous gypsy artists of the period. She was, incidentally, the first Spanish dancer to produce her own company of Spanish ballet. Anton Dolin writes of La Argentinita: "Here is an art one can compare with no other Spanish dancer I have seen. The nobility and culture, the beauty of repose is hers to command".