# Jane Sherman

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American writer, performer, composer and dancer

Jane Sherman Born June 14, 1908 Beloit, Wisconsin Died March 16, 2010(2010-03-16) (aged 101) Englewood, New Jersey Occupations Writer, dancer, composer

**Jane Sherman** (June 14, 1908 – March 16, 2010) was an American writer, performer, composer, and one-time dancer and member of the [Rockettes](/source/The_Rockettes) the famed in-house dance troupe of [Radio City Music Hall](/source/Radio_City_Music_Hall).[1] She was a former member and [authority](/source/Authority) of [Denishawn](/source/Denishawn_School_of_Dancing_and_Related_Arts), the eclectic company, founded by [Ruth St. Denis](/source/Ruth_St._Denis) and [Ted Shawn](/source/Ted_Shawn) in 1915. She performed with companies ranging from modern-dance groups to the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes.

## Early life

Sherman was born in [Beloit, Wisconsin](/source/Beloit%2C_Wisconsin), on June 14, 1908, to Horace Humphrey Sherman, an advertising writer, and Florentine St. Clair, an opera singer. The family moved to New York City in 1921, where Jane began studying dancing, after she saw a [St. Denis](/source/Ruth_St._Denis) program that included "[Brahms Waltz](/source/Brahms_Waltzes) and [Liebesträume](/source/Liebestr%C3%A4ume)", a solo that inspired her to study at the New York Denishawn School.

## Career

### Dancing

From 1927 to 1928, she joined the [Ziegfeld Follies](/source/Ziegfeld_Follies) and toured with the troupe, and later returned to [modern dance](/source/Modern_dance) as a member of the [Humphrey-Weidman Company](/source/Humphrey-Weidman_Company) in 1928. She also appeared in [Broadway revues](/source/Broadway_musical) and was a [Rockette](/source/The_Rockettes) in 1934 and 1935.

### Editing

After her dance career ended, she became a fiction editor at [*Seventeen*](/source/Seventeen_(American_magazine)) magazine in the 1940s.

## Personal life

In 1940, Jane Sherman married Ned Lehac, a high school [Science Teacher](/source/Science_Teacher) who was also a composer and lyricist for [revues](/source/Revues), contributing material to 14 shows from 1930 to 1942. In the 1990s they moved together to the [Lillian Booth Actors Home](/source/Lillian_Booth_Actors_Home), run by the [Actors Fund](/source/Actors_Fund), where he died in 1999, aged 99.

In 2003, Jane began publishing poems, gathering them into little books, some of which commented on aging. In a poem from her self-published book "Songs of Senescence".

## Death

On March 16, 2010, Sherman died at the age of 101.

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Obituary *[New York Times](/source/New_York_Times)*, March 20, 2010; page B8 [\[1\]](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/arts/20sherman.html).

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