Kate Claxton (Kate Elizabeth Cone, 1848-1924) is best remembered today as the star who was onstage during the Brooklyn Theatre Fire in 1876 (much as Eddie Foy is associated with the conflagration at the Iroquois). A year later she was present at yet another theatre fire in St. Louis, at which point she acquired a […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 09:32AM on August 24, 2021