Cathrine Countiss

Born to Judge Thomas Jefferson (T. J.) Crooks and his wife Winnie Jane Edmundson on 16 July 1873, Countiss spent her early childhood in Sherman, Texas, just after her parents' move from Paris, Texas that same year. Her father was a well-respected Texas legislator representing the Red River area, judge, newspaper publisher, and local politician.{{Cite web|date=4 April 1909|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth555530/m1/1/?q=judge%20crooks|access-date=2020-08-06|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=1|language=en}}{{Cite web|last=Hunt|first=Donna|title=Cathrine Countiss was Grayson County's First Movie Star|url=https://www.heralddemocrat.com/blog/donna-hunt/donna-hunt-cathrine-countiss-was-grayson-county-s-first-movie-star.html|access-date=2020-08-06|website=Herald Democrat|language=en}}

At the age of 9, Countiss moved with her family to Denison, Texas where she would continue her childhood up until her first marriage. As a daughter of a Texas pioneer, she would become an independent, fearless woman,{{Cite news|others=Library of Congress|date=3 February 1914|title=The Salt Lake Tribune. (Salt Lake City, UT)|journal=The Salt Lake Tribune|volume=38|page=7|issue=113|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/1914-02-03/ed-1/seq-7/#date1=1914&index=3&rows=20&words=Cathrine+Countiss&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1914&proxtext=cathrine+countiss&y=0&x=0&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-08-08|issn=0746-3502}}{{Cite web|date=25 August 1912|others=Historic Oregon Newspapers|title=The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1912-08-25/ed-1/seq-45/#words=COUNTISS+Countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=3, Part 4}} always pushing up against the usual domestic expectations of the era{{Cite web|title=The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1912-07-28/ed-1/seq-48/#words=['Countiss']&county=&city=&yearRange=&frequency=&language=&rows=20&proxtext=countiss&proxdistance=&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=&date1=&date2=&index=17|access-date=2020-08-06|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=48|date=28 July 1912}} and showing at an early age the talents that would carry her through a successful acting career. She was even noted later in life as being an "exceedingly clever pool player and billiardist."{{Cite news|date=31 May 1908|title=Miss Cathrine Countiss Star of The Broadway A Billiardist|work=Denver Republican. (Denver, CO)}}

Beginning in 1889, Countiss attended the Hagerstown Female Seminary (later known as Kee Mar College) in Maryland for two years — sometimes referred to as a convent. Following her return to Denison, she wed William Peter Countiss on 7 December 1892 at the Methodist Episcopal South Church in an event that was meticulously recounted in the local newspaper.{{Cite web|date=11 December 1892|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth313890/m1/4/?q=countiss|access-date=2020-08-06|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=4|language=en}} After their honeymoon, the couple planned to establish their home in Denison. But, she apparently had other ideas in mind — along with her new husband's employer.

Less than a year later, her husband, who was an auditor for the Waters Pierce Oil Company, was transferred with his job to St. Louis, Missouri.{{Cite web|date=17 September 1893|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth313930/m1/4/?q=countiss|access-date=2020-08-07|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=4|language=en}} Then by 1901, the couple was living in Omaha, Nebraska and periodically returned to Denison to visit her parents.{{Cite web|date=3 March 1901|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth571331/m1/4/?q=countiss|access-date=2020-08-07|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=4|language=en}} Countiss graduated from a dramatic school in New York about this same time and the lure of the stage finally takes root.

It is not certain when or why, but around this period Countiss drops her given name and adopts Cathrine, with its unusual spelling, and combined it with her married surname to be her professional stage name. Her first appearances were with the Murray Hill Stock Company in New York City, first with small parts and then moving to leading roles. In 1903, she completed a 30-week engagement with the Baker Stock Company in Portland, Oregon, a city she would return to often in her career and whose patrons embraced her talents.{{Cite web|date=3 May 1903|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth572256/m1/4/?q=countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=4|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=15 February 1903|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth571891/m1/2/|access-date=2020-08-19|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=2|language=en}} The next season she would play with the Columbia Stock Company,{{Cite web|date=2 April 1905|others=Historic Oregon Newspapers|title=The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1905-04-02/ed-1/seq-33/#words=COUNTISS+Countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=33, Part 3}} again in Portland, after a 40-week Pacific coast tour playing the lead role of Glory Quayle in The Christian.{{Cite web|date=27 September 1903|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth572220/m1/3/?q=countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=4|language=en}}{{Cite web|date=1 September 1903|others=Historic Oregon Newspapers|title=East Oregonian. (Pendleton, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn88086023/1903-09-01/ed-1/seq-6/#words=Countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=6}}

From 1906 to 1910, Countiss appeared in four productions that made their way to Broadway theatres. All were short-lived, only running several weeks. The production of Mrs. Warren's Profession also received a pre-Broadway run at the Montauk Theatre in Brooklyn, New York{{Cite web|date=4 May 1907|title=Brooklyn Life. (Brooklyn, NY)|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/83158367/|access-date=2020-08-19|website=Brooklyn Public Library|page=11|language=en}} as did The Watcher which played at the Auditorium Theatre in Baltimore, Maryland,{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/sanfrandram1910sanf#page/n5/mode/2up|title=San Francisco Dramatic Review. (San Francisco, CA)|date=1 January 1910|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=11|page=2|issue=19}} and Barbara's Millions in Chicago, Illinois (which despite Lillian Russell as its star was not well received by the critics).{{Cite web|date=7 October 1906|others=Historic Oregon Newspapers|title=The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1906-10-07/ed-1/seq-42/#words=Countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=42, Part 3}}

The old Metropolitan Opera House at Broadway and 39th Street in New York City played host to the Actors' Fund Fair for six days beginning on 6 May 1907. The extravagant charity bazaar replicated on stage Shakespeare's Stratford-on-Avon's village streets, complete with his home, Ann Hathaway's cottage, Guildhall, and the church. Throughout the run of the event, all manner of attractions would take place including recitals, demonstrations, singing, band concerts, moving pictures, art galleries, and prominent actresses of the day running various booths offering merchandise for sale and giving away an array of grand prizes. Among them was Countiss who would be there with "her beautiful bookmakers at the racing wheel."{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=l9k5AQAAMAAJ&q=e.%20d.%20price%20theatrical%20manager&pg=PA118|title=The Actors' Fund Fair at the Metropolitan Opera House|date=1907|work=The Theatre|publisher=Meyer Bros. & Company|volume=7|location=New York City, NY|pages=118, 119|language=en}}

Price, using all of his theatrical management skills, was the Promotion Manager for the event and he enlisted a whole cadre of novelists, dramatists, and other capable writers to help him publish the daily newspaper devoted to covering the details — Mark Twain among them. Kicked off at the push of a button in Washington by President Theodore Roosevelt, the fund-raiser would prove to be very successful, raising a total of $63,941.60 to support the charity.{{Cite web|title=History|url=https://actorsfund.org/about-us/history|access-date=2020-08-17|website=Actors Fund|date=24 October 2015|language=en}}

File:Cathrine Countiss Stock Company - Denver.jpg

Equally successful it seems was Price's courting of Cathrine at her racing wheel. By the end of the event they were engaged and a month later motored off to Mt. Vernon, New York where they were quickly married at the First Methodist Church on 30 June 1907, much to the surprise of their trip companions.{{Cite web|title=Morning Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1907-07-01/ed-1/seq-1/#words=['COUNTISS',%20'Countiss']&proxtext=countiss&proxdistance=&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=&city=&county=&date1=&date2=&language=&frequency=&sequence=&rows=20&index=12|access-date=2020-08-17|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=1|date=1 July 1907}} Thus would begin Countiss' second marriage and a partnership that would bring together Price's publicity savvy and her stage talents to great effect.

Beginning the week of 18 May 1908, the Cathrine Countiss Stock Company, under the management of Price, began the Denver summer theatre season with Road to Yesterday at the Tabor Grand Opera House.{{Cite news|date=30 May 1908|title=Inauguration of the Cathrine Countiss Stock Co.at the Tabor Grand in Denver|volume=20|page=4|work=The Billboard. (New York, NY)|issue=22|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2520-%25202441.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbbadcded%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D7357479%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281908%257e%257e1908%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2520-%25202441.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffbbadcded%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D7357479%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281908%257e%257e1908%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=2020-08-18}}{{Cite web|date=26 June 1908|others=Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection|title=News Free Press. (Lafayette, Boulder County, CO)|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=NFP19080626-01.2.84&srpos=5&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA-cathrine+countiss-------0--|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org|page=12}} The full season would be a 13-week engagement of 13 different plays starring Countiss in the lead roles, presented first at the Tabor and then moving in July to the Broadway Theatre and Garden, where symphony concerts and refreshments were served between the acts. The following weeks would see productions of Graustark,{{Cite news|date=23 May 1908|title=The Cathrine Countiss Stock Company|volume=20|page=5|work=The Billboard. (New York, NY)|issue=21|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2520-%25202378.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5dbaf45b%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D7357416%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281908%257e%257e1908%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252024%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Billboard%25201908%2520-%25202378.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D5dbaf45b%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D7357416%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281908%257e%257e1908%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cDISK%2520X%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=2020-08-18}} In the Bishop's Carriage, At Yale,{{Cite web|date=5 June 1908|others=Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection|title=News Free Press. (Lafayette, Boulder County, CO)|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=NFP19080605-01.2.78&srpos=2&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA-cathrine+countiss-------0--|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org|page=12}} Prince Karl, Mrs. Dane's Defense,{{Cite web|date=19 June 1908|others=Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection|title=News Free Press. (Lafayette, Boulder County, CO)|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=NFP19080619-01.2.68&srpos=4&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA-cathrine+countiss-------0--|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org|page=12}} Barbara Freitchie, Charley's Aunt,{{Cite web|date=3 July 1908|others=Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection|title=News Free Press. (Lafayette, Boulder County, CO)|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=NFP19080703-01.2.71&srpos=7&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA-cathrine+countiss-------0--|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org|page=10|language=en}} The Three of Us, and Strongheart{{Cite web|date=30 July 1908|others=Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection|title=Colorado Transcript. (Golden, CO)|url=https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=CTR19080730.2.7&srpos=8&e=-------en-20--1-byDA-img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA-cathrine+countiss-------0--|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org|page=1}} among others. The final production would be Clarice, ending the week of 10 August.

The productions were high-quality, large scale, and well received by the Denver audiences, causing in some cases the musicians to be placed under the stage to make more room for the audience. Highlights included actual motor cars driven on stage, a re-enactment of the Yale-Harvard boat race which required a cast of over 50, and a cast of over 100 in the war play Barbara Freitchie that played during the Independence Day holiday weekend. Price would insure that publicity for the season would keep audiences coming to the theatre, employing such tactics as putting the car driven by Countiss onstage in a local department store window and having her personally award a pair of silver spurs to the winner of the Great Horse Race of 1908.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/sanfrandram1908sanf#page/n361/mode/2up|title=San Francisco Dramatic Review. (San Francisco, CA)|date=6 June 1908|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=18|page=4|issue=15}}{{Cite web|title=The Great Horse Race|url=http://www.lrgaf.org/journeys/great-horse-race.htm|access-date=2020-08-18|website=www.lrgaf.org}}

Throughout the next several seasons, Countiss headed several stock companies in Denver and Grand Rapids in multiple roles. She also created the role of Mrs. Howard Jeffries in The Third Degree on tour.{{Cite web|date=17 July 1910|others=Historic Oregon Newspapers|title=The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1910-07-17/ed-1/seq-41/#words=Countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=3, Part 4}}{{Cite web|others=University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, J. Willis Sayre Photograph Collection|title=A scene from 'The Third Degree'|url=https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/sayre/id/1256/rec/2|access-date=2020-08-19|website=digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu|language=en}} In 1911 she toured as Sister Giovanni in The White Sister and returned in 1912 for another summer season in Portland to play lead roles at the Heilig Theatre to the enthusiasm of her fans.{{Cite web|date=20 July 1912|others=Historic Oregon Newspapers|title=The Times. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/2003260171/1912-07-20/ed-1/seq-4/#words=Countiss|access-date=2020-08-19|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=4}}{{Cite web|date=25 May 1912|others=Historic Oregon Newspapers|title=Morning Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83025138/1912-05-25/ed-1/seq-12/#words=COUNTISS|access-date=2020-08-19|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=12}}{{Cite news|others=Illinois Digital Newspapers Collection|date=8 June 1912|title=Cathrine Countiss to Star|page=8|work=New York Clipper. (New York City, NY)|url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC19120608.2.36&srpos=3&e=-------en-20-NYC-1--txt-txIN-countiss--------|access-date=2020-08-19}}

After a number of successful years on the legitimate stage, Countiss made her formal debut in vaudeville on 30 March 1913 at B. F. Keith's Union Square Theatre in New York City in the one-act dramatic playlet The Birthday Present, playing the role of Gwendolyn.{{Cite news|others=Library of Congress|date=1 April 1914|title=The Sun. (New York City, NY)|journal=The Sun|volume=80|page=11|issue=213|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030272/1913-04-01/ed-1/seq-11/#date1=1913&index=7&rows=20&words=CATHRINE+COUNTISS&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1914&proxtext=%22cathrine+countiss%22&y=5&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-08-12|issn=1940-7831}}{{Cite news|date=2 April 1913|title=Cathrine Countiss Debut|volume=62|page=4|work=New York Times. (New York City, NY)|issue=20,157}} Written especially for her by Fannie Whitehouse, the playlet would continue a short out-of-town tryout tour that spring commencing in St. Louis on 21 April, after performing in Baltimore at the Maryland Theatre.{{Cite news|others=Library of Congress|date=30 March 1913|title=The Sunday Star. (Washington, DC)|newspaper=Evening Star|volume=417|pages=7|issue=19,177 – Part 2|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045462/1913-03-30/ed-1/seq-27/#date1=1913&index=8&rows=20&words=Cathrine+Countiss&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1914&proxtext=%22cathrine+countiss%22&y=5&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-08-12|issn=2331-9968}}{{Cite news|date=16 April 1913|title=Cathrine Countiss's Success|page=10|work=New York Dramatic Mirror, (New York City, NY)|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200241.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D3fb9e6b2%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D1707836%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281914%257e%257e1914%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200241.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D3fb9e6b2%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D1707836%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281914%257e%257e1914%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=2020-08-12}}

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At the end of the tour, Countiss headed to her summer home in Denver to rest and visit family and friends, as was her habit. Her reviews of The Birthday Present proved so successful that Martin Beck engaged her to do a full 40-week tour on the Orpheum circuit with a premiere at the Brighton Beach Music Hall beginning in August.{{Cite web|date=17 August 1913|title=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. (Brooklyn, NY)|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/54210438/?terms=%22cathrine%2Bcountiss%22|access-date=2020-08-14|website=Brooklyn Public Library|page=15}}{{Cite web|date=10 August 1913|title=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle. (Brooklyn, NY)|url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/54207204/?terms=%22cathrine%2Bcountiss%22|access-date=2020-08-14|website=Brooklyn Public Library|page=11}} Tour stops included Memphis and other cities through the South and Midwest; Winnipeg, Edmonton, and Calgary in Canada; theatres along the Pacific Coast including Los Angeles{{Cite news|date=25 February 1914|title=Cathrine Countiss Wins Coast|page=22|work=The New York Dramatic Mirror (New York City, NY)|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2520-%25202048.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D363125a%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D1709643%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281914%257e%257e1914%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201913%2520Mar-Apr%25201914%2520Grayscale%2520-%25202048.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3D363125a%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D1709643%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281914%257e%257e1914%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=2020-08-12}} and San Francisco;{{Cite news|others=Library of Congress|date=26 December 1913|title=The San Francisco Call and Post. (San Francisco, CA)|newspaper=The San Francisco Call and Post|volume=94|page=8|issue=154|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064451/1913-12-26/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1913&index=2&date2=1914&words=Cathrine+Countiss&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&rows=20&proxtext=%22cathrine+countiss%22&y=15&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-08-13|issn=2163-4874}}{{Cite news|others=Library of Congress|date=27 December 1913|title=The San Francisco Call and Post. (San Francisco, CA)|newspaper=The San Francisco Call and Post|volume=94|page=17|issue=155|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064451/1913-12-27/ed-1/seq-17/#date1=1913&index=1&date2=1914&words=Cathrine+CATHRINE+Countiss+COUNTISS&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&rows=20&proxtext=%22cathrine+countiss%22&y=15&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-08-13|issn=2163-4874}}{{Cite news|others=Library of Congress|date=29 December 1913|title=The San Francisco Call and Post. (San Francisco, CA)|newspaper=The San Francisco Call and Post|volume=94|page=8|issue=156|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86064451/1913-12-29/ed-1/seq-8/#date1=1913&index=6&date2=1914&words=Cathrine+Countiss&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&rows=20&proxtext=%22cathrine+countiss%22&y=15&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-08-13|issn=2163-4874}} then returning through Denver, Salt Lake City,{{Cite news|others=Library of Congress|date=1 February 1914|title=The Salt Lake Tribune. (Salt Lake City, UT)|journal=The Salt Lake Tribune|volume=38|page=19|issue=111|url=https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83045396/1914-02-01/ed-1/seq-19/#date1=1913&index=4&date2=1914&words=CATHRINE+COUNTISS&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&rows=20&proxtext=%22cathrine+countiss%22&y=15&x=14&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1|access-date=2020-08-13|issn=0746-3502}} and the Palace Theatre in Chicago.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety34-1914-03#page/n15/mode/2up|title=Variety (March 1914)|date=6 March 1914|publisher=New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=34|pages=16|issue=1}} The tour would end in March the following year at the newly built Palace Theatre in New York City, which was considered the pinnacle of the vaudeville circuit.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/sanfrandram1913sanf#page/n229/mode/2up|title=San Francisco Dramatic Review. (San Francisco, CA)|date=2 August 1913|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=29|pages=4|issue=2}}

During the New York City Palace run, she shared billing with Mademoiselle Dazie in Sir James M Barrie's play Pantaloon; Mae Murray dancing with Clifton Webb; and specially featured, Harry Fox and his wife Yanci Dolly (of the famed Dolly sisters).{{Cite news|date=14 March 1914|title=B. F. Keith's Palace|volume=27|page=7|work=New York Press. (New York City, NY)|issue=9,601 – Part 4|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%25201914%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%25201914%2520-%25201537.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff830bd152%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D2649199%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281914%257e%257e1914%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252018%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%25201914%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Press%25201914%2520-%25201537.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff830bd152%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D2649199%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281914%257e%257e1914%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=2020-08-12}}

The challenge with being married to a successful theatrical manager and having your own stage career is that you are not in the same place together very often. Such was the case with Countiss and Price who frequently found themselves on opposite coasts, or at least different cities. While she was touring on the Orpheum circuit, he was managing Robert Hilliard on the east coast. They did manage to merge their schedules in Chicago in March after not seeing each other for six months. Price, in his wry humor, wired his wife to tell her he would meet her at the train and to "wear violets so I will know you."{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/variety34-1914-03#page/n11/mode/2up|title=Variety (March 1914)|date=6 March 1914|publisher=New York, NY: Variety Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=34|pages=12|issue=1}}

At the close of the Orpheum tour, she began yet another tour — this time on the Interstate Amusement Company circuit in her home state of Texas, much to the delight of her local followers. All told, Countiss would perform The Birthday Present in over 500 performances in less than a year. The couple, however, hoped to meet again in July in Denver at their summer home.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/caliweekly24pill#page/n249/mode/2up|title=The San Francisco Dramatic Review. (San Francisco, CA)|date=25 April 1914|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=30|pages=9|issue=14}}

Beginning in late 1914, Countiss turned her acting talents and considerable stage experience to mastering the medium of silent feature films. In the span of roughly six months, she would star in four moving pictures. First would be the five-reel film The Idler, an adaptation of the stage play by C. Haddon Chambers, co-starring Charles Richman, and produced by the Box Office Attraction Company (Fox Film).{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy#page/84/mode/2up|title=Moving Picture World (Jan – Mar 1915)|date=2 January 1915|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=23|location=New York|pages=84|issue=1}} Following this initial entry, Countiss joined the Life Photo Film Corporation under contract to play the lead in their next photoplay, The Avalanche.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/motography12elec#page/802/mode/2up|title=Motography (Jul – Dec 1914)|date=12 December 1914|publisher=Electricity Magazine Corp.|others=MBRS Library of Congress|volume=12|pages=802|issue=24}}

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Adapted again from a well-known legitimate stage play, this time by Robert Hilliard and William A. Tremayne, production began 7 December 1914 on the five-part moving picture to be released the following year. During the filming, permission was granted by the New York Stock Exchange for shooting interior shots depicting a panic on the exchange floor, as part of the plot involved attempts to manipulate the lead male character's mining stock.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew102unse#page/n1021/mode/2up|title=Motion Picture News (Oct 1914 – Jan 1915)|date=26 December 1914|publisher=Exhibitors' Times, inc.|others=MBRS Library of Congress|volume=10|pages=31|issue=25}} Other filming was done across the Hudson River in their laboratory and studios in Grantwood, New Jersey, near Fort Lee which at the time was the center of the American movie industry. One reviewer commented that "Cathrine Countiss, well known both on the stage and screen, has the feminine lead...and plays the part to perfection."{{Cite book|title=Motography (Jan. 2 – June 26 1915).|page=164|language=en|date=30 Jan 1915|issue=5|hdl=2027/nyp.33433034835631?urlappend=%3Bseq=198}} Building on her success, Life Photo renewed her contract to play the lead in their upcoming film, A Modern Magdalen.{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy#page/372/mode/2up|title=Moving Picture World (Jan – Mar 1915)|date=16 January 1915|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=23|location=New York|pages=372|issue=3}}

C. Haddon Chambers would again provide the source material for this film, based on his play by the same name. Countiss would share top-billing with Lionel Barrymore playing opposite her in this five-act production released in the spring of 1915.{{Cite news|date=5 April 1915|title=A Modern Magdalen-The Family Theatre|volume=37|page=6|work=Daily News. (Batavia, New York)|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FBatavia%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%2FBatavia%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201914%2520Nov-May%25201915%2520Grayscale%2FBatavia%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201914%2520Nov-May%25201915%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200935.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffcdd122cd%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D92064%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281915%257e%257e1915%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FBatavia%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%2FBatavia%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201914%2520Nov-May%25201915%2520Grayscale%2FBatavia%2520NY%2520Daily%2520News%25201914%2520Nov-May%25201915%2520Grayscale%2520-%25200935.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffffcdd122cd%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D92064%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281915%257e%257e1915%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=2020-08-03}}{{Cite web|date=30 September 1915|others=California Digital Newspaper Collection|title=Press Democrat. (Santa Rosa, CA)|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SRPD19150930.2.82&srpos=4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-cathrine+countiss-------1|access-date=2020-08-15|website=cdnc.ucr.edu|page=6}}{{Cite web|date=24 May 1915|others=California Digital Newspaper Collection|title=Santa Cruz Evening News. (Santa Cruz, CA)|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SCEN19150524.1.8&srpos=5&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-lionel+barrymore+countiss-------1|access-date=2020-08-15|website=cdnc.ucr.edu|page=8}}

The fourth and final film in her career came when it was announced she had been engaged by the newly formed Dramatic Feature Films, the short-lived successor to The Oz Film Manufacturing Company. She would play the title role in The Gray Nun of Belgium, written by Frank J. Baum — the son of L. Frank Baum of OZ fame — and Francis Powers. Filming would be done in their Los Angeles studios, the city that would soon replace the east coast as the new capital of cinema in the United States.{{Cite news|title=Cathrine Countiss Signed|page=22|work=New York Dramatic Mirror. (New York City, NY)|date=7 April 1915|url=https://fultonhistory.com/highlighter/highlight-for-xml?altUrl=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201914%2520May-Jun%25201915%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201914%2520May-Jun%25201915%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201967.pdf%23xml%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff848ce864%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D1712054%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281915%257e%257e1915%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&uri=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FNewspaper%252010%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201914%2520May-Jun%25201915%2520Grayscale%2FNew%2520York%2520NY%2520Dramatic%2520Mirror%25201914%2520May-Jun%25201915%2520Grayscale%2520-%25201967.pdf&xml=https%3A%2F%2Ffultonhistory.com%2FdtSearch%2Fdtisapi6.dll%3Fcmd%3Dgetpdfhits%26u%3Dffffffff848ce864%26stgd%3Dyes%26DocId%3D1712054%26request%3Dcathrine%2520countiss%2520and%2520%2528Filename%2520contains%2520%25281915%257e%257e1915%2529%2529%26index%3DZ%253a%255cIndex%2520I%252dE%252dV%26searchFlags%3D17897728%26autoStopLimit%3D50%26SearchForm%3D%252fFulton%255fNew%255fform%252ehtml%26.pdf&openFirstHlPage=false|access-date=2020-08-03}}{{Cite web|others=Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections|title=New York Clipper|url=https://idnc.library.illinois.edu/?a=d&d=NYC19150403.2.133&srpos=11&e=------191-en-20-NYC-1--txt-txIN-countiss--------|access-date=2020-08-03|website=idnc.library.illinois.edu|page=18|date=3 April 1915}} Although planned to be released later that year, indications are that the film's distributor found it inferior and refused to exhibit it. So, no known copies exist. As with many silent films which have been lost, only two of Countiss' films are known to still be extant according to the American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, The Avalanche{{Citation|last=Countiss|first=Catherine|title=The Avalanche|date=1915|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.1646/default.html|others=Library of Congress, American Silent Feature Film Survival Database|access-date=2020-07-29}} and A Modern Magdalen.{{Citation|last=Countiss|first=Catherine|title=A Modern Magdalen|date=1915|url=http://memory.loc.gov/diglib/ihas/loc.mbrs.sfdb.7624/default.html|others=Library of Congress, American Silent Feature Film Survival Database|access-date=2020-07-29}}

The location of shooting of this final moving picture would prove pivotal in the life of Countiss, ending her professional career and starting a whole new chapter.

Enter George Clark Hanna to the stage. After filming was complete on her final movie in the late spring of 1915, Countiss did not return to New York to resume her stage career as some would have thought. Instead, she stayed in Los Angeles through the winter and rekindled a relationship with her long-time acquaintance and school sweetheart from the Denison days of her childhood. Hanna had already moved from Ft. Worth, Texas to California in 1911 to take some months of rest and start a new business after he closed his lumber business there.{{Cite web|date=7 May 1911|title=The Sunday Gazetteer. (Denison, TX)|url=https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth572244/m1/4/?q=%22george%20hanna%22|access-date=2020-08-04|website=The Portal to Texas History|page=4|language=en}} And the result was that Countiss would divorce Price and marry for the third time to Hanna before year-end.{{Cite web|date=20 January 1916|title=The Sunday Oregonian. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn83045782/1916-01-30/ed-1/seq-44/#words=['Countiss']&proxtext=countiss&proxdistance=&ortext=&andtext=&phrasetext=&city=&county=&date1=&date2=&language=&frequency=&sequence=0&rows=20&index=0|access-date=2020-08-04|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=3}}

The couple would settle into a comfortable life in Pasadena, California eventually living at the historic Hotel Green far removed from the frenetic pace and coast-to-coast travel of the stage world. Throughout the 1930s and 1940s they would take several cruises to Hawaii and Europe to rest and relax.{{Cite web|last=Sears|first=Jim|year=2015|title=Grayson County TXGenWeb-Grayson County's First Movie Star|url=http://usgenwebsites.org/TXGrayson/ENTERTAINMENT/FINEARTS/Countiss_Cathrine/Countiss_Cathrine.html|access-date=2020-08-05|website=usgenwebsites.org}} They would remain married for the next 40 years until her death on 27 October 1955 at their home.{{Cite news|date=30 October 1955|title=Obituary-HANNA-Mrs. Catherine Hanna|volume=23|page=33|work=Pasadena Independent. (Pasadena, CA)|issue=259}} She is interred at the grand and elaborate mausoleum in Mountain View Cemetery, Altadena, California, designed by the prominent mausoleum designer Cecil E. Bryan. Hanna would join her in 1958.{{Cite news|date=11 September 1958|title=Obituary-HANNA-George Clark Hanna|page=19|work=Pasadena Star News. (Pasadena, CA)}}

• Barbara's Millions (1906) as Fernande, co-starring with Lillian Russell as Barbara at the Savoy Theatre
• Mrs. Warren's Profession (1907) as Vivie Warren at the Manhattan Theatre
• The Offenders (1908){{Cite book|last1=Parker|first1=J.|last2=Hunt|first2=B.|year=1909|title=The Green room book; or, Who's who on the stage. 1909.|publisher=T. S. Clark|page=615|hdl=2027/coo.31924051063075?urlappend=%3Bseq=679|language=en|location=London}} as Mimi Graham at the Hudson Theatre
• The Watcher (1910) as Felice Kent at the Comedy Theatre

• The Idler (1914){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/motionpicturenew102unse#page/n794/mode/2up|title=Motion Picture News (Oct 1914 – Jan 1915)|date=12 December 1914|publisher=Exhibitors' Times, Inc.|others=MBRS Library of Congress|volume=10|pages=21|issue=23}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy#page/326/mode/2up|title=Moving Picture World (Jan – Mar 1915)|date=16 January 1915|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=23|location=New York|pages=327|issue=3}}{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy#page/16/mode/2up|title=Moving Picture World (Jan – Mar 1915)|date=2 January 1915|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=23|location=New York|pages=16|issue=1}}{{Cite news|date=7 October 1916|title=Scene from 'The Idler'|volume=27|page=26|work=The Winnipeg Evening Tribune. (Winnipeg, MB, Canada)|issue=240|url=https://digitalcollections.lib.umanitoba.ca/islandora/object/uofm%3A1693262}} as Lady Helen Merryweather Harding for Box Office Attraction Company (Fox Film)
• The Avalanche aka Barrier Between (1915){{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/stream/movingpicturewor23newy#page/1978/mode/2up|title=Moving Picture World (Jan – Mar 1915)|date=27 March 1915|publisher=Chalmers Publishing Company|others=Media History Digital Library|volume=23|location=New York|pages=1978|issue=13}}{{Cite web|title=The Oregon Daily Journal. (Portland, OR)|url=https://oregonnews.uoregon.edu/lccn/sn85042444/1915-05-12/ed-1/seq-11/|access-date=2020-08-02|website=oregonnews.uoregon.edu|page=55|date=12 May 1915}} as Clara Benson Vaughan for Life Photo Film Corporation
• A Modern Magdalen (1915) as Katinka Jenkins, co-starring with Lionel Barrymore as Lindsay for Life Photo Film Corporation
• The Gray Nun of Belgium (1915) as the title role for Alliance Films Corporation, Dramatic Feature Films, The Oz Film Manufacturing Company

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• [https://countiss.wixsite.com/cathrinecountiss Cathrine Countiss biography and career details with photos, documents, and ephemera] at Official Page
• {{IMDB name|0183606}}
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• [https://vaudeville.library.arizona.edu/?s=countiss Cathrine Countiss theatrical photographs and clippings] at The University of Arizona Library, The American Vaudeville Museum Archive
• {{Find a Grave|176619030}}
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=8&v=IwFMYn-zGg8&feature=emb_logo Mountain View Cemetery Mausoleum] video on YouTube

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