Part Four - The Reward and Price of Success
Pearson-Newport-Pearson Reach the Top by 1926
When Earl and Carl Pearson left their father’s coal mines behind and hit the show-business trail in 1915, they probably could only dream of reaching the height of success that every vaudevillian aspired to: the Palace Theater in New York City. But by 1926, the brothers, along with Earl’s wife, Cleo Newport, would play there seven times. Their success wa…
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