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FRANK KNIGIIT — CBS Announcer
T^RANK KNIGHT was born in St. John’s, Newfoundland, on May 10, 1894, the son of one of the town’s most prominent barristers. -*■ After his graduation from St. Bonaventure’s he settled in the town of his birth and took up life as a bank clerk. At the outbreak of the war in 1914 he enlisted with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. During his three years overseas he took part in action on the Western front and about Gallipoli, and was wounded in the battle of the Somme. Returning home broken in health, Frank, as were so many others, was faced with the problem of readjustment. His health was slow to return and after months of recuperation he became restless and anxious to break away from what he considered the tedium of banking. Knight enrolled at McGill University for a course in medicine. But the long hours of study and strenuousness of that calling forced him to abandon his studies during the second year. Determined not to return home Frank came to New York. He had vaguely thought many times that he would like to be an actor. He had little training for the theatre other than courage, but it was just that abstract quality that won for him a place behind the footlights. After playing numerous minor roles in road companies of Broadway productions, he appeared opposite such stars as Francine Larrimore and Nance O’Neill. Frank went into radio at first only as a hobby. He played occasional small parts in radio dramas but as time went on he gave more and more serious attention to its possibilities. But there were hardly enough radio dramas to justify giving up the theatre altogether. He was still doubtful when he yielded to the advice of his close friend, Ted Husing, to join the ranks of WABC announcers. Frank is tall and good-looking. His hair is black, greying a bit around the temples. His bearing instantly suggests his military training. Reading fills to a great extent his leisure hours. He is quiet and well-poised. Prefers the country to the city but lives in midtown Manhattan. Frank Knight is Columbia’s British-accented announcer with an all-American following.
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