ENTERTAINER'S RESOURCE.

Clutha Leader, Volume XXXIX, Issue 46, 17 January 1913, Page 8

ENTERTAINER'S RESOURCE.

Among the stories told of the late Sir Edward Moss, the well-known director of music-halls, who died at the end of November, is one which shows his resource as an entertainer. In liis early days at Edinburgh he managed a fast-ing-nian show, "but the enterprise was a failure," he said. "Then it occurred to me that a good many people would be willing to see a man who had not eaten for 30 days break his fast, so I took AVaverley Hall and announced that the fasting man would eat his first meal in public thorc. There was something snlnViontly norel in seaing a man oat in these conditions. Th« people cam* by thousands and transformed a failure into a 6UC0C66."