John Bovingdon

John Bovingdon was a modern dancer-turned-economic analyst who performed regularly at the Kings Road House of architect R.M. Schindler in Los Angeles in the 1920s. He studied economics at Harvard and graduated with high honors in 1915. After graduation, he moved to Japan and worked as a professor of economics at Keio University until 1920. He was fired from his post at the Office of [Economic Warfare] in 1943 following "publication of assertions that Bovingdon used to be a ballet dancer and once had Communist associations." Martin [Dies Jr.] was critical of his employment there.
He traveled to Russia to work on the film Black and [White |Black and White].
Bovingdon founded a dance school with his wife, Jeanya Marling. She later married Soviet playwright Alexander Afinogenov.