VOL. XIII, NO. 13
MAY 26, 1972

Student Interviews Bill Bixby After Actor's Local Appearance
By ROY CHAPMAN

WMTH's (88.5 FM) "Current Comment" has interviewed many interesting and important guests this year. Some of these guests include Lt. Governor Paul Simon, Dan Walker, Floyd Kalber of NBC news, actor Hugh O'Brian, and even a short segment with comedian Don Rickles.

The most recent guest was Bill Bixby, star of TV's "Courtship of Eddie's Father," who appeared in Arlington Park Theatre's production of the Neil Simon comedy, Come Blow Your Horn. The theatre's publicity director arranged for chief engineer Claude Meier and me to see the play free of charge and conduct the interview afterwards. It is interesting to note that the production was put to-gether in only six days.
 At the conclusion of the play, we talked with Bill Bixby in his dressing room and discussed many things pertaining to his career. The star was born in San Francisco and later attended the University of California at Berkeley. His interest in the theater grew while taking part in high school drama and debate for which he was awarded numerous trophies. In 1963 he received his "big break" into show business which he claimed co-starring with Ray Walston in "My Favorite Martian." The show ran for three years and established him as an actor.

He feels his role in "The Courtship of Eddie's Father" was important because it shows the relationship between an adult and a child, not a man and a boy.

Asked which he enjoyed the most, the stage or screen, he replied that he would have to agree with Mr. Billy Wilder in saying, "Motion pictures are the directors' medium, television the producers' medium, but the stage is the actors' medium."