Evening star., 1947-12-14
First Clown Among Last
Bobby Clark Believes His Comedy Type l.
Disappearing From Theater
By Jay Cormody

The difference Bobby and that of other
public life is that his deliberate things
that happen everybody First comedian-by
consenrearmed that truth National
audiences which started OF opening night with
Harry Eisenhower up
with intelligent customers could get seats.
He again the
hearts, discriminating enough to drop whatever
back laughing with Bobby
"Sweethear" thing
happened operetta old What happened to It, Of
that picked by Bobby Clark mad tpropeed Primes
Charming who found the works Of Victor Herbert
But he Futu Is DIM
Strangely and quite sadly for the heater of the future this win
happen often Clark only the
Comedian pre-
clowns He will tell himself with becoming modey
IT, did, ask the question:
will the future such performers Ed Wynn Joe
Cook Victor Moore, Bert Iahr and all the others'
ut won't, guess" Clark I'VE had buesque vaudeville
kinds of training that We the
products of professional environments We still here Of
us gone"
His shredded wheat came just then and he waited.
already resuming
type musical built the comedian
ourselves Look at odays hits the with
They Brgadoon, Carouse Tnans Rain
bow Annie Get Your Gun The accent Is on music pooucton
different of entertainment
witty musicals when there were
There nothing n odays changed
altogether that audiences amused
the style musicals 1t just that he thinks it is
theaters rock with
"sweethearts plays
happens be the veteran clowns test OF people reay
enjoying themselves
He Tolerates the Machines
the movies and
radio has with his life
triumphant rating the top funny man OF his time Al
truth his most amused recoecons his one picture
Job. .
odwn Foes 1t known as the longest 1ecnn'cool N
the history Of the worst tried to sst
out of it. in fact, every tried, but It Co."
feeling throughout the picture was that ne under
stood nothing what going on and no one WI"
The latter he says certainly the director
George Marshall had the slightest
idea who
This was not ego speaking just who
should have some idea OF the materials tnes "
Radio Is Always Reckoning.
machine which stitches entertainment into life,
anpahy Clark although he does think mnze the
like the great elders OF today The truth that he
by RADIO and actually has quite an open mind
Nothing ever comes points I'VE
great meetings executives potential advertising
shows Just they Everybody excited
sit there listening the project grow and . 1nen
speak. All is We'll this Just lns
but would have your writer's just submit me couple oa ~
scenes?'
At least after 10 such meetings have yet to see the nrst ~oro socn
a script"
1t Is Not Writers shyness.
you suggest shyness
radio writer's reluctance write whose
O
sounds logical" agrees Is
spent lot New York and the East IN
that time his professional life has been
% @ @ t+ " ~ s nt,uto @ % m t " W. hS ~ - s no.,h,v | son ~ ~
he Well, being human
He friendly he likes talk likes what
out of much of the talk Sometimes he nds greatly amusing
so times he the writer's feel
to
Control Will
delighted the countrys
audience last Monday night but he also
worried He had enough experience he thinks to rise to
somewhat JUSTIFIED his fret
the whole timing Of the
professional genius does Clark
likes audiences better than anything else
about his acrobac stunt the
he
Q line which hangs nearly 20 feet above the
my control" he was perfect that
may funny, but which good"
Considering he made his first
Hagenbacks Circus 1905 he entitled periodic Of
perfect
- He Won't Quit gain