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...Godfrey took many a detour on the road to radio fame & fortune. He made a "nice dollar" selling cemetery lots as "investments," played M.C. in a Chicago saloon, "supported by the first nude chorus in vaudeville," and did a hitch as a Coast Guard radioman before he ever stood up to a microphone...
Millions of listeners rely on Arthur Godfrey no less than hot coffee to start their day right. For twelve years he has run radio's top top-o'-the-morning program, sleepily announcing the time, playing drowsy records, yawning through newscasts and here & there decorating the day's first commercials with slyly adverse comments on their sponsors. All this is unrehearsed blarney. His secretary Margaret ("Mug") Richardson, hands him a slew of advertising copy and news oddments (item: "The United States Government has bought 1,000 dead horses"), and "Red" Godfrey starts spieling...
Starting Seed. In 1930 he went into commercial radio as "Red Godfrey, the Warbling Banjoist," advertising bird seed. Next year, while "one of NBC's dullest announcers, and that's saying plenty," he was hit by a truck, spent four months in a hospital, listening hour after hour to the radio...
...donor of a $75,000 gift, and the Corn Products Refining Company gave $60,000 for research in physical chemistry. Erection of a new building to be used as a laboratory by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health was provided for by a gift of $150,000 from the Godfrey M. Hyams Trust. There were also three separate donations from national medical research groups for studies in infantile paralysis and cancer...
...Lillie. But otherwise, Three to Make Ready is a very wet box of matches-a bathroom sketch whose humor is even more out of date than the plumbing, an interminable Sad Sack todo, a facile take-off on Oklahoma!, comments by a grimly recurrent radio comic named Arthur Godfrey. Everything considered, Three to Make Ready would have done far better to confine itself to Bolger and a backdrop...