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Show Stage-Struck Girls So Bad They Won Fame, Fortune In 1893, four stage-struck sisters from an Iowa farm, ranging in age from 17 to 22, appeared in a sketch of their own composition on an amateur program in Cedar Rapids which started them on the most fantastic career in American theatrical history, says Collier's. Being so incredibly bad and ludicrous lu-dicrous that they required a wire screen to protect themselves from thrown vegetables, the girls played in the Middle West until 1896, when their "reversed fame" won them a $l,000-a-week contract on Broadway. Seven years later, the Cherry Sisters retired to farm life -with a fortune of $200,000. |