American actress, dramatist and storyteller Ruth Draper was born on this day, December 2, in 1884.

Karsh wrote: “It was always an event when a performer of the stature of Ruth Draper came to Ottawa. An enormously gifted, world-famous monologist, she could create a whole world of characters with her voice and body language. Newly arrived in Ottawa, I was fortunate that a great lady of the theater consented to sit before the camera of a fledgling photographer.”