- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 56 min.) : digital, mono.
- Summary
- Two interviews taken on the same date at the same place. 1st interview (25 min.) with George Shelton, a fellow comedian and vaudeville actor, refers to his colleague Bobby Clark with great affection and respect and recounts his first work as a beginning comedian with the team Clark & McCullough in Monkey Shines, a burlesque revue produced by Clark. He stresses the talent of early comedians and Clark's in particular to write their own material unlike the comedians of later years that have writers working for them. Shelton talks about the functions of two organizations that ensured steady employment for burlesque performers and a regular supply of new shows: The Columbia Amusement Company, also called the Columbia Wheel, and American Wheel. The 2nd interview (31 min.) with Maurice Barrett (aged 87 at the time of the interview), a former actor and director on Broadway turned a rabbi at the age of 77, and a resident of the Lambs Club who met Bobby Clark over 42 years ago. With open admiration for Clark, whom he regards as a wonderful actor and a superb human being (Barrett composed and delivered Clark's eulogy) he speaks about traits they had in common (self-education, desire to be in the legitimate theater), Clark's truly charitable nature (he never revealed his acts of philanthropy), and his utmost seriousness, dedication, and respect for his occupation.
- Alternative Title
- Interview with Maurice Barrett about Bobby Clark.
- Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Title from collection record; credits and date from the original container.
- Streaming files transferred from original audio reel.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Source (note)
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark, *L(Special) 93-36.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 3808
- OCLC
- 910632006
- Title
Interview with George Shelton about Bobby Clark ; Interview with Maurice Barrett about Bobby Clark, 1961-06-06.
- Production
1961.
- Country of Producing Entity
United States.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
computer
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Access
Patrons can access streaming audio file online only onsite at the Library for the Performing Arts.
- Performer
Bill Lipton, interviewer ; George Shelton, Maurice Barrett, interviewees.
- Event
Recorded at the Lambs Club New York 1961 June 6.
- Original Version
Archival original format: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 3 3/4 ips., two track mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 3808.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of: Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark, *L(Special) 93-36.
- Source
Gift; Bill Lipton, 1984.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Shelton, George, interviewee.
Barrett, Maurice, 1874-1963, interviewee.
Lipton, Bill, 1926- interviewer.
Lipton, Bill, 1926- donor.
- Added Title
Interview with Maurice Barrett about Bobby Clark.
Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.
- Found In:
Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 3808