Show stage struck girls so bad they won fame fortune in 1893 tour 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 colliers being so incredibly bad and ludicrous that they required a wire wire screen to protect themselves from thrown vegetables the girls played in the middle west until 1898 1896 when their reversed fame won them a 1000 a week contract on broadway seven years later the cherry sisters retired to farm life with a fortune of |