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Show J SPREADFAME OF JOE GOSS Leum Maimer Once Page to Fortune Tell-k Tell-k I Faker.. 1 ravels With Road Show All Over ! C II S.. Then Sets Local Theatre on Its'Feet J W - u r- , , II is the W - ' 1 by the JCKS V .1.. :. mftn- V ;, , .! r.-. spoken Ki ,h'S Sat- S, .- n t- :'ft...r .ughout the United ION : Jo..- loss, whose ' cli in essing rooms." f b, '-.os In NYw York City Mr '. S ' of paper he v.'j.r 1-. nU n the famous mW- o t" :-'t "Ughtnin'." P'fb spokr- up and said In the Htv n-ar.n-- thai was part of hla HI' that 'J have I - Ej Mi- ' "!i it's an F ri:(0(.mi him tr : ou somewhere," WLc'r question" il -i n 1 1 as ask-. B'j en in igden. y lalmed Mr. E, ou '.-. J--- ti..- man- ifcat ns ' dressing Kg'ln his house." Ki-jjiocJ that mi mbi rs of the Ra profession ;,rt'- Hhe all other KTinfiUciiri'l 1 'J a great f-vtent K'-r surroundings and that if the Cidln.-- are pleasant they will BSi patrons a much bettor per- iEict, Mr Goss, when he took Ebe raanacnii' jnt oi the Orphenm, Bat the old dressing rooms, bin i. oaes and has ulw ;ys Insisted BjKy h kept M-nipu:-a.is!y clan. "bas earned th Hfcr. for his patrons throughout jaablishment to which hi K the success of the theatre- i Ha struggle of hut' than three E rhes a deficit was faced cacti K In Salt Lake May 2". iss:. fiucat.-il In th.- publl schools, El employment did not in.l,. u- KfllDgly said, that he would ever dHt&e theatrical busiM. HIS FIRST JOB. Bflrst jo!) v. ,i that of a pane boy Kfflee boy wan that was a royiat an J fortum- ti-::--r. Hut HbUWhen he learned that it Bely a busine- at least that mdi-'i l'.a Ktir. a'ti-ndlng gH te met C'nannlng Pollock, who -4 JOSEPH r c.oss. has since brcom- a well known play-wrltrht play-wrltrht ar,d producer, and his brothoV, John Pollock, at present chief publicity pub-licity at,-cnt for the Orpheurn circuit with headquarters in New York City. PKOLri i: PLAY. The trio produced a play written by Channin Pollock entitled. "An Outcast Daughter." putting It on In three- hotels in Salt Lake and later in the Salt Lake theatres, donating the funds to St. Anne's Orphanage. Though he liked the business there was no mon. y to be made al It in such R manner and lie went into the baker) business which he quit after six: months, later entered the printing business which he also disliked. SUM later he entered tho mechanical department de-partment of the Intermountaln Electric Elec-tric company of Salt Lake, where h'j remained four years. Shortly afterwards he becaui ac-uainted ac-uainted with ICred Arboe-ast. former ly of Ogden, who gave him employ-ment employ-ment as assistant electrician at the Salt Palace and the old Grand theatre the-atre in Salt Lake. FIRST JOB OX HO AD. His first position In the real show business came when he joined Henry Miller who was just comlnir to the front in the play entitled 'The Only Way." and still later he joined Lewis Morrison In "Faust." His position with the Morrison company com-pany came about through an accident In which the electrician received a broken leg and Mr Ooss left with the company, touring tho United States for thrue years. During that time he and the company com-pany visited every city with between 15.000 and 20.000 inhabitants In the United States and Canada. Mill later he Joined the Crcstcn Clark company with which ho traveled for three years, lundlng in Denver. Colo., tt the close of his contract, con-tract, where he organized a carnival company. At that time vaudeville was becoming becom-ing popular In the west and he anu his Jrlends put on a sketch entitled "Lunette, The Flying Lady,'-' in which u woman was. apparently und-r the power of hypnosis, suspended in th . air. The act opened at the old "ttondir-land "ttondir-land house on Curtis .str.-et In len r and Mr Goss had charge of the ma-ohinery ma-ohinery that raised the body of the woman above the stage and caused it to float, apparently, In the air. Hit partners Insisted that he d'.d not have the machinery arranged to ; r.ii-e th- Woman's body high enough uuovc the stage so he rearranged it j under prote.. Everything was going fine, he said. !on the opening r.ighl. The audiencu sat spellbound confronted by an apparent ap-parent mystery in which the laws oi i gravity were set aside by the strange and little known power of hypnosis. U 1 BREAKS UP. Saddenb and without warning the machinery gave way and the woman crashed to the floor which also dashi -i the hopes' Of Mr. Goss as far as vaudc-I vaudc-I villi was concerned. He then joined th- Crcston Claris company again in th-- play entitled, ' Monsieur Beaucaire." and after two i seasons he again landed In Denver. He bought the rights to a cand-floss cand-floss machine which at that time w i ( i tremendous novelty and did a land-office land-office business, selling out when the 1 novelty began to war off. ir Goss left Denver Tor Salt Lake, n hi re he Joined the Orpheurn as electrician, elec-trician, organized the Stage employes-union employes-union and wdS pre-.id.nt for three 'years of that organisation and Aa later offered and accepted the posi-; posi-; tlon as manager of the Orpheurn, kvh.-r.- hi remained lor three years. (iUI'S O.N KOAD Vaodevllle still called to him. however how-ever and while manager he conceived the idea of a sketch entitled. "A Modern Mod-ern Pocahontus- which he took on the road for two years, the act being book.d as a boadllner during that '"hie first submitted the idea to Martin Mar-tin Bfck. head of the Qrpheum ctr-eul ctr-eul who gave U his okey. after which Mr. Goss went to the Indian reservation reserva-tion in Idaho and spent three months Studying the habits of the Indians In .Order to get the correct atmosphere and the required local color for the skc tch Mr Goss carried besides himself and his wife, 11 people in the act. ono Indian woman and six full-blooded Indians. . The act. due to tho novclt ot the full-blooded Indians and the intrinsic worth of the sketch itself, in stage terms, went big. nd the company received re-ceived an ovation wherever it ap- PfneKansas City. Mo.. Mr (Jess Was Invited by one of the prominent financiers finan-ciers of that city to bring the company com-pany to a dinner gotten up in their " " U' IN FULL REGALLV The Indians, he said, appeared In their full regalia, and created considerable consid-erable interest at the hotel and tn the dining room reserved by tho natron for such occasions. Their first experience -uith green Olives Which they took to be some kind of green plum and bit into avidly brought roars of merriment from the asK. ro bled guests aB the Indians rnado I faces and gulped down the olives. stone.-3 ;;d all, but r- fused a second i helping. While playing at Oakland. Cab. the company was Invited to the University Of California at Berkclo where I phonographic records were made o;' 'the different dialects used by tho Indians In-dians in th- company. At the conclusion of the second season Mr. Goss returned to Salt Lake and was sent to Ogden to take charge : of the remodeling . of the Orpheurn lure. Following the resignation of Will Winch he was made- manager and for three successive vears tried out the Orpheurn vaudeville BRINGS I N PANTAGI -lie then brought the PautagCS vaudeville to Salt Lak- Ogden and Denver. Colo . and later on bought stock for the house in tho Associate l First National Pictures to Insure to the house the screen productions --f .stars In the movie world. I In that line he reviews each week i between eight and 10 pictures, discarding dis-carding those with a sex appeal and tnose that In any way are not clean morally. During his early life Mr. Goss was 'an enthusiastic church member an 1 while In Salt Lake occupied practically every position that a young man could occupy In the L 1 S. church. He was married In the temple -it Salt Lake to Miss Clio Woolley. daughter of Ju-ig. i:. a Woolley of Salt Lako. They have ono daughter. Ituth, 12 years of age. Mr. Goss is a member of the Elks' lodge a nif-mber of the Rotary club and u nln-ctor of the Weber club. His hobby, he said. "Is the show , business." |