Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1904 — Miss Johnson’s Ambition. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Miss Johnson’s Ambition.

Miss Bessie Johnson, daughter of Tom L. Johnson, the millionaire mayor of Cleveland, who has just signed with Charles Frohman, is to take a leading role in “Brother Jack,” the play in which Annie Russell will star this season. Miss Johnson has always wanted to go on the stage and has caused her

parents much uneasiness by her ambitions. On two occasions she came to New York to study for the stage, and each time she was taken home as soon as it was discovered by Mayor Johnson that the interest of his daughter in the work was becoming strictly professional. Apparently, however, her father’s consent has at last lieen won, and Miss Johnson is to be allowed to pursue her ambition of becoming a great actress. She is about twenty-one years old.

MISS BESSIE JOHNSON.