Elyse Joy: hobo reporter of America

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ELYSE JOY
Hobo Reporter of America
Present a New Star

In four seasons has captivated more than 1,500 audiences with her new kind of dramatic entertainment


Read what Albert Edward Wiggam, noted psychologist, author and lecturer says of Elyse Joy
You can surely book Elyse Joy with the utmost confidence with any audience.  I heard her last evening before a tip-top audience, the third time before this same audience, and she was a huge success.  For an hour she kept them see-sawing between rollicking humor and pathos, interspersed with some of the most excellent acting I have seen in a long time.

I have known Miss Joy since childhood.  Born a mimic, at eighteen she was a star reporter, and later became one of the most competent newspaper women in New England, served on several leading dailies.  But along with her newspaper work she developed into a most capable actress of genuine quality and originality.  Indeed, originality, backed up by a lively and engaging personality, is the keynote of her entertainment.  Her unique experiences
 as a newspaper woman, and her remarkable crossing of the continent as a Hobo Reporter, have given her an apparently inexhaustible fund of stories, some of them thrilling personal adventure, and I have seldom heard better stories better told.

In addition Miss Joy brings to her programs a fine and convincing philosophy of life that wins the confidence of her audience to her as a woman of inspiring quality and character.

If audiences want something different they surely can secure it in Elyse Joy.

Sincerely yours,
(signed) ALBERT EDWARD WIGGAM, June 5, 1937.

P.S. Miss Joy's feats of memory are amazing.  The chairman told her in advance where a great many of the audience would be sitting and she called the names of more than fifty of them, correctly located, during her entertainment.  As a psychologist I wish I could give her an intelligence test and find her I.Q.  Anyhow, as I overheard one man say, She is no moron, although in a flash she can make herself look like one.

A. E. W.



OTHER COMMENTS

James B. Pond in Program Magazine, June, 1937—
What's the use of being a darned good character actress, if you can't work at it to practical (cash) advantage?  So thought Elyse Joy some time ago when she was a Boston gal reporter.  If you can fool them on the stage why not fool them in real life.  Get something out of this gift of being able to look like an old lady just hit by an auto, or a neglected wife hunting for a lost hubby.  She tried it and it worked.  She made a bet with Mayor Curley of Boston she could work her way across the country without a dime, and that she would phone her dad every night without one penny cost.  She did.  She has.  She is still at it.  She has been christened the 'Hobo Reporter,' but that doesn't mean she is a tramp.  Just a smart character sketch artist, who does her stuff off the stage as well as on.


Philadelphia Public Ledger—
All agreed it was the shortest forty minutes they had ever known.

Bobby Jones, Noted Golfer— I thought I had seen some of the country, but your score has me tied to any green.


Hammond, Ind., Tribune—
An artist.… She has the sparkle of real genius.


Stockton, Calif., Record—
Her appearance Tuesday was nothing short of a riot.… Impersonations of screen stars' secretaries engaging rooms for the luminaries; of a stuttering secretary of a woman's music conservatory; of a person a bit 'touched'; it's her keen trick of observation and her rubber face that she can twist into a thousand shapes.

In consultation with the program chairman, Miss Joy is prepared to adapt her entertainment especially to meet local conditions.  By so doing she is able to achieve startling effects which assure a captivating program.

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