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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 la age from 17 to 22, appeared in a sketch of their own composition on an amateur program in Cedar I Rapids which started them on the ! most fantastic career in American j theatrical history, says Collier's. Being so incredibly bad and ludicrous lu-dicrous that they required a wire 'screen to protect themselves I 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. |