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M a x Waizman Has Played Dialect Parts So Long That He's Apt To Break Into Potash and Perlmutter or Herr Fizzmeyer Almost Any Time. For Twenty Years He Has Been On the Stage, Appearing in "Partners Again," With Jimmie Gleason and Ann Harding In "Like a King" and "Street Scene." Now He Brings His Characters To The Air
HERU
EIZZMEYER In PERSON—
by Hazel Wilson
NOT altogether coincidental was the choice of Max Waizman, noted actor and stage director who has joined the NBC staff in San Francisco, as the portrayer of the baffled German school-master in the Schoo skit of the Associated Spotlight.
Max has been playing dialect parts so long on the stage that he's likely to break into a Potash and Perlmutter, Herr Fizzmeyer or some other dialect almost any time.
"One reason for that is because I have real German in my own blood," he explains when you ask him to divulge the secret of why comical mispronunciations roll off his tongue with a touch of authenticity far different from the strained stage effects sometimes heard in dialect performers.
Max's father came to San Francisco when it was a young city. He was the first paper-box manufacturer in that city, and he married the pretty daughter of another German arrival, who had come all the way around the Horn. Her uncle, John Pforr, was a Forty-niner who found gold in the real estate business instead of mines.
Young Max grew up in San Francisco and attended the University of California. Dr. Julius Klein was one of his class-mates and Rube Goldberg was a senior at U. C. when Max was a freshman.
Max started his theatrical career by joining the German Players at College, and from that it was an easy step to the
Max Waizman as the baffled schoolwaster in the school day skit of the NBC Spotlight Revue.
Liberty Theatre in Oakland. There, later, he first met Tom Hutchinson, NBC production manager, Earle Hodgins. producer and other old Liberty alumni now at NBC.
Twenty years on the stage, including fourteen in New York productions, are the basis for Max's fine technique before the microphone. He played eighty-eight weeks on Broadway as the lawyer in "Potash and Perlmutter": appeared in "Partners Again" and played with Ann Harding and Jimmy Gleason in "Like a King" ; it was Ann Harding's first part. He was the "milk-man" in both the stage and screen productions of "Street Scene."
He has an odd hobby for a member of the Lambs' Club — painting. Landscapes in oil and in delicate pastels, done whenever he can find a day off to visit the country, are Max's method of "resting."
Besides playing the role of the schoolmaster in the Associated Spotlight, Max produces a number of NBC programs, including The Dinglebenders, Kolb and Dill's radio serial.
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RADIO DOINGS