Old Play in Manhattan, Jan. 21, 1946

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After McCullough's death, Bobby made his first solo flight in the Follies, was a success from his first scene. Since then he has starred in such musicals as The Streets of Paris (with his wow song, I'm Robert the Roué from Reading, P-A), Star and Garter, Mexican Hayride. But twice before The Would-Be Gentleman, Bobby has shed his painted specs to enliven the classics. As Ben the Sailor he romped through Congreve's Love for Love, as Bob Acres in The Rivals he made "the role look as if a storm had swept over it."

Offstage, Bobby Clark is intensely serious and quiet, "the most unfunny man," says Producer Todd, "that I know." Bobby himself feels very sad that he never went to college: "Think of all the things I will never know—about compressed air. for instance."