1893-1957
Elsa Greenwood was lifelong resident of Newark, who attended Robert Treat School. She ran the Elsa Greenwood School of Dance.
When Elsa died in 1957 the Newark News claimed it was due to exhaustion from staging dance recitals, which she did frequently around the city and state.
In her early career Elsa was in theater including at the Branford Theater in a prologue to “Blood and Sand”. Elsa Greenwood’s Juveniles are credited in the 1931 film Puss and Boots.
Bibliography
Cummings, Charles F. “Women Who Made their Mark on City” Jun 20, 2002
G-28, Greenwood, Elsa, Newark News Morgue, Newark Library, includes obituary Jun 12, 1957 “Elsa Greenwood, Teacher of Dancing”
“With the Plays and Players” Westfield Leader April 12, 1932.
Ad, Newark News, Dec 23, 1940
Ad, Newark News, Apr 18, 1924