Part Two – From the Barns of Iowa to the Footlights of Broadway

Pearson's Rise to the Footlights of Broadway 1916-1921

Earl Pearson had convinced his younger brother to get out of their father’s coal mines and start practicing a Vaudeville dance routine. There is no record of the supposed discussion that the two young men may have had with the father, Joe Pearson. These kinds of conversations I suspect are common among young men and their fathers when the …