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 …
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