Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whānau a Eddie Morton ki Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, te tama a te kaiwhakaari C.H. Morton, i roto i te kapa taketake o "The Black Crook". Mai i te 1898 tae noa ki te 1905, i mahi ia mo te Tari Pirihimana o Philadelphia, i arahina ai ki tana putea i muri mai ko "Te Cop Singing". Kātahi ka noho ia hei kaiwhakaari momo, ā, i te tau 1907 ka puta ia ki te
Ko Madison Square Roof Garden i New York City i roto i te kapa 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.