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Show T HE face is lined out but the figure is trim. And Robert Young, who recently turned 64 says he wants to go on acting until hes 90. The viewing public presumably would approve. It keeps his Marcus Welby, M.D. television series at or near the top of national And audience ratings. Young, at his popularity acting peak in a career, seemingly saturates the tube. 40-ye- ar h?en photowith President graphed Nixon at the White House as national chairman of the Easter Seal campaign. March 8 and 9 he was seen as a U.S. senator on NBCs four-hou- r, Vanished, two-pamovie version of Fletcher Knebels novel about the disappearHe has rt ance of a presidential viser. ad- is a weekly Welby also hosted And he series. Robert Young and the a special deFamily, scribed as a light-hearte- d fami- Garbo, Joan Crawford, ly in poignant, humorous sketches. Myrna Loy, Katharine look at the American And thats not counting Father Knows reruns of an admirer says Best, Or his face on happily. the cover of a national magazine. YOUNG takes such exposure in debonair stride, scoffing at claims hell be seen by 120 million viewers: It could be the same 40 million watching each show. And they ignore the fact that Welby will be opposite the second seg- ment of Vanished. but reared in Los Angeles from the age of 10, found in Young, make-u- p Chicago-bor- n for high school plays a shield for much of his natural shyness. After graduation he held various bank jobs while studying acting nights at the Pasadena PlayCommunity house. A contract player at MGM in the 30s and 40s, he had romantic leads in more than 100 movies opposite such stars as Greta Hepburn, Greer Garson, Norma Shearer and Jean Harjpw. From adolescence he suffered from migraine head-- , aches. itual rather than religious alternation of inner attitude. This he found, he says, through frevuent attendance at the Science of Mind Church at the suggestion of his wife Betty, who in five years. Young and the former once Betty Henderson, at Los Angeles, Lincoln High School, just celebrated, their 38th wedding anniversary. They have four daughters and five grand- sweethearts children. For five years on radio and six more on TV Young MarcusWelby, M.D. has y - brought television fame to Robert Young at age 64. The familiar actor may starred in winning two Emmy he awards. Exhausted, do anothswore hed never Best, er series a statement that made a liar out of me when Main I did Street FOR YEARS, he sayd, he had a drinking problem. Both he attributes to tension, overcome by a spir 90! has long been interested in metaphysics. Hes now a teetotaler and hasnt had a headache Window on one year later. he swore off series. suppose every actor whos worked in a long series feels so in need of physical rest that he foolishly makes a statement like that. he says. Then something like Welby comes along which is attractive and stimulating. BY AGREEMENT with, Again slart retiring at Father Knows I Universal Studio, Young has a three-da- y weekend from his role as a compassionate Santa Monica general practitioner. James Brolin plays his motorcycle-ridin- young g o associate, and Elena is their attractive nurse. Ver-dug- On weekends Young and his wife chartered two-bedroo- are piloted by plare to their cottage just m off the golf course at Rancho Santa Fe, 100 miles south. Weekends are mar- velous medicine, Young says. has brought Welby Young his third Emmy and a certificate of meritorious service from the American Academy of General Practice. The Association of Operating Room Nurses gave him a plaque for representing the medical profession with dignity and sensitivity. I says. enjo y acting, Young Whenever anyone says retire I say. Retire to what? Hi |