Clara Morris begins with a poor, frightened childhood and a mother working to keep them fed, then follows the girl into a Cleveland theatre as a ballet extra earning her first salary. Chapter by chapter she records stock-company seasons, tights and stage fright, kindly old players and petty tyrants, and the long climb toward the starring roles that made her a celebrated name on the American stage.
Candid, funny and often touching, a rare inside view of the nineteenth-century American theatre from a woman who lived it. Download the free EPUB.