Today is the birthday of Claude Gillingwater (1870-1939). Trained as a lawyer, Missouri native Gillingwater worked first as a wholesale vinegar salesman before David Belasco gave him the chance to pursue his dreams in the theatre. By 1899, he’d made it to Broadway. And by 1914 he was so well known that he headlined on […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 03:00AM on August 2, 2016