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If Parkyakakas is Harry Einstein and Harry Einstein is the Advertising Director of a Boston furniture store, then who is the Greek comedian on the Eddie Cantor program? Read this!
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By EDWARD E. LEWIS
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Harry Einstein, Advertising Director of the Kane Furniture Co., is the voice behind Parkyakakas. The card on the right is a sample of one of his gaga schemes.
the broad A common to Boston — "that such a part would ever be handed me on such a program."
Not by the wildest flight of imagination could Harry Einstein, the Monday morning I interviewed him, be taken for the master of the Greek dialect who had panicked, the night before, one of radio's largest audiences.
His sleeves rolled up to the elbows, a pencil jabbed down over one ear, he was interviewing printers, salesmen, department heads, and — in-between times — writing a new ad for the furniture company of which he is a director.
During the swiftly moving moments of his daily routine this young Boston business executive remains coolly efficient. It took a telegram from the world of entertainment, from Cantor himself, to upset his equilibrium.
"Because," as he confessed, "I was unable to eat or sleep. It was the greatest and happiest moment in my life, yet the most miserable. Miserable because my rise and fall depended on this first interview with Mr. Cantor."
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[E sat back — this young man of thirty who controls a yearly appropriation of $20,000 for advertising — drew a deep breath and explained:
"That train ride from here to New York was the longest period of my life. I never realized how slowly trains could run. I actually wanted to get out and push the cars myself."
But if Parkyakakas is Harry Einstein, and Harry Einstein is the advertising director of a Boston furniture store, whence the hilarious, successful Greek comedian?
The dialect which he mastered came easily to him and comedy was bred in his bone. (Continued on page 63)
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