Grace Elliston

Background

Elliston, Grace was born in 1878 in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Daughter of George R. and Sarah Virginia (Tarpley) Rutter.

Career

Played in Americans at Home, 1899, The Ambassador, 1900, The Shades of Night, 1901, Chattanooga, Grand Opera House, Chicago, 1901. Played in The Only Way, same theatre, 1902. Played in A Blot in the Scutcheon, 1905, The Lion and the Mouse, Lyceum Theatre, 2 years, The Rector’s Garden, 1908, Falling Leaves, 1908.

Played in Her Husband’s Wife, with Henry Miller, 1910. Played in The Shadow, with Ethel Barrymore, at Empire Theatre, New York, 1915.

Connections

Father:

George R. Rutter

Mother:

Sarah Virginia (Tarpley) Rutter