Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brian! Naughty!" scolded Mrs. Ralph Bell, wagging a finger at her 2½-year-old son. She went to .the radio and snapped it off. "How many times must I tell you, you must never listen to your father on the radio...
Father's flat, sinister voice is probably the most familiar and vicious in radio's rogues' gallery. It seems that scarcely a crime is committed on the air these summer days without Ralph Bell having a trigger finger in it. His ominous accents exude the criminal essence so unfailingly that many directors hate to entrust a "hardened criminal" role to anyone else...
...Bell often plays the villain in as many as 16 shows a week; his record is seven in one day. Last week, on "a sort of summer vacation," he did the dirty work in nine, including one soap opera. All this crime pays Bell about $30,000 a year, but he sweats like a stool pigeon for it-twelve hours a day, six days a week.* Even off the air, Bell sounds and looks like a hood just back from escort duty on a one-way ride. With his sneering voice goes a curling lip (with black, headwaiter mustache...
...Bell grew up "a dutiful child" in a respectable middle-class family of Hackensack,N.J. After taking an A.B. at the University of Michigan in 1937, he got a few minor roles on Broadway, then drifted into radio, where he was immediately typed as a criminal...
Femme Fatale. In Philadelphia, Sailor Meldon Bell sheepishly told cops that he had been pushed into a doorway and robbed by a rather "powerful" woman...