LOTTE GOSLAR
From the time she was a small child in Dresden, Germany, making up dance routines to the piano music her father, a bank director, played for relaxation, Lotte Goslar's life has been centered on dancing. With Hitler's rise to power, Lotte left Germany and, stillin her teens, became a professional dancer. As a member of the anti-Nazi theater, "The Peppermill," she became widely known in Europe for the dance satires which she composed and performed. She came to this country when "The Peppermill" toured the United States, and here she stayed, for appearances on Broadway and for three coast to coast solo tours. In 1944 she went to Hollywood for a four-week engagement, at the Laughtons' famous little Turnabout Theater, that turned into a stay of nearly ten years. During that decade she also did choreography for motion pictures and stage productions, formed a dance company and toured California with it, and founded the Lotte Goslar School of Pantomime. In 1954 she met Freddy Albeck, once a popular singer of American jazz in Denmark, who, when forced to flee his native country because of his activities in the underground, had become a popular singer of Scandinavian folk songs in America. With him as her right-hand mand, Miss Goslar created the Pantomime Circus. The troupe made a triumphant eleven-month tour of Europe in 1954 and 1955. Three more editions of the Circus and three more equally successful tours, two European and one American, followed. The company is now touring the United States for the second time. Lotte Goslar's permanent home is in Los Angeles; she is married but has no children.