As a team, they entertained vaudeville and burlesque audiences from 1912 through the thirties, when they transferred some of their better sketches from the stage to film. McCullough, who suffered from bouts of depression, required treatment in a Massachusetts sanitarium in 1936. One day McCullough went into a barber shop for a shave in the town of Medford. After his shave, he grabbed the razor and flayed at his neck and wrists. He died in a hospital two days later. Clark said, "I think it was just something Paul couldn't help. Something that had been with him all the time and he didn't even know it." A few months later, Clark appeared alone in "The Ziegfeld Follies" of 1937. Clark's Broadway work continued through the 40's, with Cole Porter writing songs especially for him in Mexican Hayride. He appeared in comedy classics as well. His last stage show was in 1956, playing the devil in a road company of Damn Yankees. Vintage sepia matte-finish 11 x 14 photo, signed and inscribed 'Sincere Good Wishes to Edward J. Barry from Clark and McCullough, Strike Up the Band, Feb. 1930.' In fine condition, with a few faint creases, silvering to the darker areas. RRAuction COA.
