Tuhia tētahi tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I whānau a Eddie Morton ki Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, te tama a te kaitapere C.H. Morton, i te kaiwhakaari taketake o "The Black Crook". Mai i te 1898 tae noa ki te 1905, i mahi ia mo te Tari Pirihimana o Philadelphia, i arahi ai ki tana putea i muri mai ko "Te Cop Singing". I muri mai ka noho ia hei kaiwhakaari momo, a i te tau 1907 ka puta ia i te Madison Square Roof Garden
i New York City i roto i te kaitapere o "The Maid and the Millionaire", he whakaari puoro. I te tau e whai ake nei i haereere ia hei waahanga o te whakaaturanga Rollickers burlesque a M. M. Thiese, ana ka noho hei mea rongonui i nga whakaaturanga vaudeville i whakahaerehia e Benjamin Franklin Keith me Sylvester Z. Poli.