Bessie Morse

In New York she assisted the principal of the American Academy of Dramatic Art, and since then she visited every year in Boston and Chicago for the purpose of getting new ideas.

Before that she traveled under the management of a lyceum bureau as a reader, touring the North, South and West under their auspices, also giving private recitals during that time.

According to the St. Louis Star "her success is due to her thorough understanding of her chosen art, to her admirable personality, also her zeal and devotion to her profession.

[5] The Morse School of Expression taught elocution, oratory, literature, dramatic art, physical culture, and aesthetic dancing.

[3] Among the graduates Morse sent out from her school who were distinguishing themselves were: Maud W. Barnes, director of the Department of Expression in Ouachita College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas, one of the largest seminaries in that State; Valerine Dunn, who went first with the Suburban Stock Company, and then was director of the Department of expression in the Visitation Convent of Mobile, Alabama; Mina Pearl Finger of Marissa, Illinois, who occupied the same position for the Lindenwood College, St. Charles, Missouri; Eunice Green, connected with the Sacred Heart Convent in St. Charles, where she was the director of physical culture; Naomi Weston Childers, gained success as the ingenue in the "Madame X" Company of Henry W. Savage; Geraldine Albert, teacher of Expression in the Academy of the Visitation, St. Louis; Madeline McNabb, studied in Boston and made a reputation in that city; Caroline Delano Johnson, of St. Louis,[3] Cathryn Cravens, commentator on radio, Kathrine Snodgrass, also known as Jane Porter, who conducted the Magic Kitchen program on radio, Therese Wittler, winner of the Samuel French award and Marjorie Moffett, actress and impersonator.