| Show I Former ormer Salt Lake ake C City y Girl Gir 9 a a- aStar St Star 1 I Gladys J Johnson Johno With The Fool 0 4 II I- I 4 I Author of Play Also Is Salt LakerI Laker I Channing pot Pollock ock Who Wh Wrote Wrote Th The Fool Coming to Lake Theatre January 2 21 1 Spent Boyhood Here P PRO pROMINENTLY cast in inThe The Fool a Broadway Broadway- success success 1 written by Channing Pollock a former Salt Laker is IS a Salt Lake girl who will be he remembered d by many former schoolmates and acquaintances She is Gladys Johnson daughter of R Rufus Johnson Johnsoni Johnson formerly formerly of Salt Lake but now of Butte Mont Miss Johnson whose name by marri marriage ge is IS Seabrook and who has taken as her stage name Gay Seabrook plays the character role iole of Margaret Mary in The Fool which is probably the best womans woman's part in the production It is said saidI I that she fits the role of Margaret I 1 Mary perfectly When The Fool Fool- oo I appeared on Broadway during a arun arun arun run of one and a h half years the capable capable ca ca- pable pablo star Sarah Southern plaY played d the role In which Miss Mis Seabrook Is Isnow isnow isnow now cast Gladys Johnson attended the grade schools of Salt Lake and went two years to the East High school She finished her high school tion on the coast While in in Salt Lake Gladys Johnson Johnson John John- Jqhn- Jqhn son took active part In amateur dramatics achieving perhaps her most notable distinction in me role of Puck in The Midsummer Nights Night's Dream at the the Shake Shake-i centennial Channing Pollock wh who wrote The Fool and who comes a aa as the star of his own play lived in Salt Lake when a small boy and at attended attended attended at- at tended the public schools here His father Alexander L L. L Pollock was also a newspaper man coming to Salt Lake in 1890 from Omaha to become an editorial writer on the theold theold old Salt Lake Bake Evening Times first Gentile paper published in the 1 States Later with Albert I F. F 1 Phillip veteran newspaper man now of Tho The Telegram staff and others who have since left the city he leased the paper and ran ran it for several months when they disposed of ot their lease This paper which had the distinction of printing the first picture that ever appeared in itt a Salt Lake paper and was the first to issue a noon edition was later suspended Following this Pollocks Pollock's Pollock's Pollocks Pol Pol- locks lock's father became the managing editor of old Salt Lake Herald Pollocks Pollock's early home in Salt alt Lake was waa at South Main street It was was while living here that a most unusual thing happened to his brother John now general press representative for the Orpheum cir cir- cir cir- cult Streetcars had Just been elec elec- trifled John one day was playIng playIng playIng play- play Ing on the tracks near his home A A. streetcar approached suddenly and he found It was too late to jump from the tracks With great presence of mind for a youngsters he dived face first with arms arm stretched in front of him In the middle and parallel with the two rails To the horror of the passengers passengers passengers pas pas- the streetcar passed over his body But John arose without a scratch He became the newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper hero of the country for never before and it is believed never since has a person been run over by a streetcar and not injured Channing Pollock made his first appearance on a stage at the old Salt Lake theatre where he is soon to appear again after a lapse of many years At that time he or organized organized organized or- or a juvenile company playing playIng playIng play play- ing Romeo in Romeo and Juliet and also the heavy part In a melodrama melodrama melodrama melo melo- drama called The Noble Outcast John Pollock also played in these productions In 1894 President Grover Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland Cleve Cleve- land appointed Pollocks Pollock's father to the post of ot consul general at San Salvador and the Pollock family moved t to Central America where the father later died from yellow fever feyer Other members of the famIly famIly family fam fam- ily never returned to Salt Lake |
