Actor: Lotta CrabtreeThe Crabtrees moved again and set up another boarding house, this time to Rabbit Creek, forty miles north. Soon after, Lotta made her first professional appearance at a tavern owned by Matt Taylor. She began touring throughout California, and Nevada, making a name for herself as a dancer, singer, and banjo player in […]
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William Barry
William Barry in San Francisco in 1861, looking as young as ever. He was then playing at McGuire’s Opera House, in that city. Mr. Joseph Proctor resides in Philadelphia. He was lately still playing there his favorite character of ” Jibonanesy ” in Nick of the Woods. Lotta Crabtree rolled with this crew.These were veterans […]
Stephen C. Massett
Stephen C. Massett was a one-man show – he was known to play a medley of songs, dramatic recitations, and comic imitations, including imitations of seven different persons who had assembled for the purpose of suppressing the press, a hit in San Francisco – he took his act to the mining camps. He played bijoux […]