When Vaudeville came to Joplin
By: Cynthia S. Gillard
Publisher: [CreateSpace]
Published: 2012
Place of publication: [Charleston, S.C.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9781468119282
Subjects: Vaudeville; Fiction; Families
Description: When Vaudeville Came to Joplin is the first in a series of historical fiction novels based upon a 100 year old scrapbook that chronicles the lives of Vaudeville performers during the turn of the 20th century. Young Adella Marie Lawton has a profound love of the piano, which she plays fervently in church, and secretly yearns to forge a career around her musical talent. When a touring Vaudeville troupe comes to Joplin, Adella's confusion about her life path mounts all the more . The leading man in the troupe is Clifford Hastings, a dashing British man several years older, who Adella first meets under remarkable circumstances. Their fates intertwine further when she signs on as a pianist for the troupe's Joplin shows. Based upon the lives of Vaudeville actor, Clifford Hastings and musician, Adella Marie Lawton.