Growing up, I was always a hard worker. At age nine I sold enough newspaper subscriptions to win a bicycle in my hometown of Allegheny, Pennsylvania. It was also at that age, that I was fortunate enough for my family to travel to New York for my career. At age thirteen, I was a chorus girl and later on when I was fifteen, I performed at Pan- American exposition in the “Trip to the Moon” exhibit. At age sixteen, I had an opportunity to perform in Mr. Bluebird along with my mother at the Iroquois theater. I was not a member of the “Pony Ballet” dancers, therefore I might have been in the chorus training to become an aerialists. My mom would travel with us as to help with the costumes and was a time I would never forget. On December 30, 1903. There was a spark in one of the stage lights, this being my first performance, I thought it was a part of the performance. Moments later my mom spot the unusual behavior and came to action by alerting us to exit the stage. An actor named Foy came from behind the stage, tried to calm everyone down, he even encouraged the orchestra to keep playing. As we start to flee the stage, an icy wind made the fire bigger which opened inwards and became jammed as actors pressed toward the door leaving hundreds of hundreds of audience members locked out. Many escaped the theater through a coal hatch and through the
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At age twenty-five I performed in my fifth Broadway play which was also my last play .When I was twenty-six I performed in Churchill Cabaret in New York City, and when I was twenty-nine I had performed as a vaudeville comedienne with Gus Shy's Passing Parade Musical Comedy
At age twenty-five I performed in my fifth Broadway play which was also my last play .When I was twenty-six I performed in Churchill Cabaret in New York City, and when I was twenty-nine I had performed as a vaudeville comedienne with Gus Shy's Passing Parade Musical Comedy