Word: yuh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this week's show, Walter Huston, from Hollywood, wrestled through Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster; eagle-beaked Comic Jimmy Durante paid off with: "T'ank yuh, Boigess. May I call yuh Meredit'?" Much of the continuity was contributed by the U. S.'s No. 1 literary jack-in-the-box, William Saroyan. Volunteer Saroyan mailed in the last of his manuscript Friday night, forgetting Saturday was Armistice Day, a mail holiday. When Sunday came, and no Saroyan, CBS chased him down, had him re-conjure the missing paragraphs...
With Tony ("Are Yuh Listenin'?") Wons absent from radio poetizing, the coziest parlor voice in U. S. radio nowadays is that of Ted (Between the Bookends) Malone, sympathizer, poesy reader, prattler extraordinary. When Ted Malone comes visiting, the average U. S. woman-of-the-house finds herself as politely helpless as when the gadabout from down the street calls. "May I come in?" asks Ted. "I see you are alone. . . . Now I'll just take this rocker here by the radio and chat awhile. . . . What lovely new curtains. . . . Well...
...reverse de engine, th'ew de levuh back Twenty seb'm jumbos jump'd de track, He holluhd to de fiuhman, say: "Jim, yuh better jump, 'cause two locomotives is about tuh bump...
...Yuh got me, unh." And so it goes. If you like this bundle of grunting, r'aring sox, you will doubtless enjoy her latest movie. The opus lacks the freshness of the first, partly for the reason that Miss West's favorite remarks to males have been publicized to the point of near extinction, and partly for the reason that few, if any, new ones have been added. The gags in the picture have apparently been ground out by some studio back with a memory stopping at the year 1918, and with a bad case of the jitters; the music...
...Frank Crane, Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Many, of unknown origin, are favorites of listeners who send them in. Here and there are a few lines from Shelley, Browning, Whitman, A. E. Housman. Wons puts them through a microphone in a voice hushed, saponaceous, insinuatingly folksy, with an ingratiating "Are yuh listenin'?" or "Isn't that pretty?" 'R' You Listenin'? is a book of extracts from "Tony's Own Philosophy," sermonets which he sometimes broadcasts. Typical excerpt...