Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...person Graham McNamee is lean, light-haired, with prominent nose and upper teeth. Born in Washington, D. C. in 1889, he grew up to be a semiprofessional baseballer in St. Paul, Minn. Then he found his baritone voice was better than his throwing arm. He was a church soloist in Bronxville, N. Y. where he romantically won his wife with the aid of an elopers' ladder. Called one day for jury duty in Manhattan, he found himself near No. 195 Broadway, then headquarters of WEAF. He walked in, took a voice test, got a job. Fame came quickly...
...daily flashes current events before the eyes of ten million cinemagoers in 10,000 theatres. Last week Newsreeler Laemmle enlisted more aid. To replace the explanatory captions in his newsreels he contracted to have the explanations spoken by a voice already familiar to his customers, the radio baritone of Graham McNamee, broadcaster extraordinary. A new title was invented for the occasion: Talking Reporter...
After hearing Graham McNamee describe the Dempsey-Tunney fight of 1927, a fairly hardboiled newspaperman* wrote: "Tears, murders, fever were in that voice. . . . I thought from time to time he was going to break down and cry. The emotional load was too great for a human heart...
...title of Talking Reporter did not mean that Graham McNamee was going to shoulder a new assortment of emotional loads. He will not be present when the newsreels are taken. The 51 newspapers† film local news, send it to Universal Newsreel's Manhattan laboratory. There Talking Reporter McNamee will view it. As he watches he will make remarks, which will be recorded on discs synchronized with the film. National Broadcasting Co. will not lose its No. 1 event-describer. McNamee's hour-a-day with Universal Newsreel will be sandwiched in among his regular announcing engagements...
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