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fi! HAS GRAHAM
The crowded hour of glorious life"
By Nancy Barrows
least Graham was at home long to pose for the picture up in the corner! And maybe all of his thoughts aren't with Major Bowes' Amateur Hour {right) and his Sunday evening assignment.
THAT sounds like one of those purely rhetorical questions, requiring no answer! Home life and Graham McNamee would seem to be as far apart, as divorced from each other as politics and patriotism. Why, the man is a dynamo of industry. He is radio's busiest announcer. His voice, according to an estimate made at \'BC, is heard over the air more often than that of any other man. He is on the Major Bowes' Sunday night Amateur Hour. He is on the Rudy Vallee program. He is on the new Plymouth series with Ed Wynn.
Also he is the voice of the Universal News Reel. Twice a week he works for that, in the small hours of the night. Twice a week he makes recordings.
And in between times there are s|M>rts broadcasts, conventions, Kentucky Derbies, and what have you? A list of the special events that he has covered for NBC would read like a history of the last ten years. Remember Broadway's welcome to Lindbergh, to Byrd, Chamberlin, Amelia Earhart. . . . Remember almost any occa
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sion that in some vanished hour made radio history, and I'll wager that the voice whose spontaneous lift of enthusiasm kindled the fire in your own heart was the voice of Graham McNamee.
It's hard even to imagine him away from the micro1 lihone. But, like any normal human being, he must exist somewhere apart from it. He must have some spare time to himself, some place called "home" to go to — or from !
"What," I asked him, "do you do, if and when you'll not working?"
"Well," said Graham in his quick nervous staccato.! "on Tuesdays and Thursdays I try to catch up on mjl sleep. On Mondays and Wednesdays, when 1 make my news reels for Universal, I'm up till two a. m. On course they wait till the last possible moment, to get thej latest news in their weekly releases. I enjoy doing them.J he averred, "but I sometimes wish they came at some other hour."