European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 1966, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daily Magazine chair Way to comedy Joes act by Bill staff writer Roth straight and j Dapper in the shadowy lobby of his we Badun it had been a Long maybe a million and 60 he started when he was 10 and Hes 70 but Joe figures he still has places to Joe is in show Hes the Little Man with the confound cd folding Beach you May have caught his Hes been doing it for More thar half his career All Over the states and eur theres hardly anywhere he Hast it was a Rainy summer Day in 1905 when Joe got first a Man saw him and his brother juggling baseballs and playing Harmonicas to amuse them selves while they waited for customers at the Maryland amusement Park Booth they were the offered them a Dollar a night each to do their stuff in the Parks evening Joe decided that this was the life Tor a couple of years later he left his Hometown of a smoke stack studded Philadelphia for the he never went Back for More than a in Chicago he broke into vaudeville As a from that he went into a hand balancing when world War i Joe was a member of a Perch doing stunts atop a Long pole balanced by his he left it to loin the army signal corps at Camp when he took care of car Rier when the War was Joe went Back to the stage and played Heaters from new York state to in the late vaudeville showed signs of the movies were moving and variety houses were Joe followed a lot of other american performers to where things were said to be they but by 1930 Joe knew he  expect to be doing handstands on top of poles much he had to find something else if he wanted to stay in the Rosamber Jetle found it on his Way Back to the a girl on his deck of the he de France came out for some Sun and started to unfold one of the Woodland Canvas Hoach chairs of the Joe watched As she tried and tried in he saw fellow passengers smother giggles when her Boyfriend came to her Aid and got More up than she had he saw the giggles turn to guffaws when a deck Steward dashed to the Rescue and did still when the ship Joe went to Coney Island and bought a deck chair just like the one on the he de he took it Home and started Joe went Back to Europe As a Panto mime his Only props the deck chair and an outfit of clothes that came apart As he wrestled the chair with pathetic he played the Folles Bergere in the palladium in the Winter Garten in this time he want a member of a but a featured it was while he was at the Winter Garten that he took a boat ride to pots dam and met a girl named in 1931 he married Joe took his Bride to and they toured the while Joe did his chair act with some of the last of the big musical such As Earl Carrolls Holiday of which ran through in 1847 they went Back to and he resumed the round of european variety his wife died iwo years and Joe went Back to he did a show with Eddie there wore slate fairs and floor shows and night and Joe kept and ii Dinces were still laughing at him and his Beach but even the night clubs wore fading in television was doing to them what the movies had done to and television would be a on shot Deal for a pantomime Clown and his 1930 Beach Joe folded it and came Back to since Hes been Back and Forth across the playing the continent where business was this has been a pretty Good since last Hes played Hamburg and in december he went to Munich to film a variety show for Germany second program Channel from when he met the press in Wiesbaden hed been resting a few weeks awaiting his next would you like to see my chair he and his face lit its right up in the i could even put on Hie the chair was in a Canvas cover lean ing against the Joe got it the Back and seat were dark and the wooden Frame had broken Many times and each time been patched with you i have All sorts of trouble trying to set this thing i get All tangled up and catch my clothes in and they come finally i have it fixed and sit Down to then i notice the Footrest int ill show he flipped the chair into position and stretched out in with the Footrest dangling in front of he stopped talking and let his eyes and motions speak for the eyes widened and took in the flopping he leaned Forward and started to arrange then the whole chair tilted Forward and Joe went sprawling face Down on the the chair on top of like he said quietly from the then he hopped to his feet and photo by Lloyd Burguss March 1966 Thi Stam and Stuk s