Victory Salesman

Robert Allen (I. E. Theodore Baehr '28), who this spring joined the ranks of the leaders of the amusement world contributing their art to boost war bond sales, has found it a hazardous undertaking. A Lancaster, Pa., paper, reporting a "Pledge for Victory" rally, said he and the beau- teous Fay Wray were "nearly tram- pled under foot by the mob of en- thusiastic autograph seekers.

Allen, who in recent years gradu- ated from the movies into the legiti- mate theatre, has had a varied career. A training course in the Na- tional City Bank of New York and a short term on the sales force of the Curtis Flying Service were prelimi- nary to modeling for John R. Powers' photographic agency and playing small parts in movies. After a few years' sentence as the star in the "Bob Allen Ranger" series, he be- came a featured player in first class pictures, among them—Love Me For-ever with Grace Moore and WinterCarnival. Some of the stage plays in which he has been appearing are a Theatre Guild production called Battle of the Angels, Popsy which starred A 1 Shean, and The Man WhoCame to Dinner.