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Trophy case built by Toby houses his muchprized possession — "Blessed Martin" award.
Popeye's first "birthday" rates a cake and a celebration by Capt. Jolly and Poopdeck Paul.
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Toby's "sense of fun" isn't left behind at CKLW; he shares it with his children, too.
Add a beard — it's Captain Jolly
on CKLW; subtract one — that's Toby David and
999 alter egos on the lam around Detroit
"A roomful of people" — but Toby David is just one, at home with Virginia and the children: Theresa, 15, Toby, 16, Gerard, 6.
Toby David is a man of a thousand characters — with a thousand voices to match. As one reporter aptly phrased it, "Talking to Toby is like talking to a roomful of people." And he gets many a chance to use his alter egos on his radio and TV programs. . . . The characterization with which Toby is currently charming Detroit youngsters is rollicking "Captain Jolly," the bearded, bespectacled old gent who clowns it up between the cartoons on the 6 P.M. "Popeye" show seen daily on CKLW-TV. Toby's beard, incidentally, is for real. He decided to grow his own, when, for a few disastrous minutes, his fake whiskers came unglued during a show. . . . Versatile Toby's use of his "multiple personalities" doesn't stop with his TV show, either. He starts off each weekday on CKLW Radio with a 6:45 A.M. variety program. Says Toby — jolly even at that hour — "I get up at 5 A.M. every day just like clockwork. After all these years, it really is a habit." . . . Back before he had "nary a voice to his name," Toby had been called "Tofy," which is the Lebanese word for "success." He had a colorful childhood traveling with his father, who played in a circus band, his animal-trainer mother, and two sisters. When they finally settled down in Michigan, Toby attended Highland Park High School and Ford Trade School, where he trained to be a draftsman. But his flair for mimicry brought him a variety of roles in a traveling stock company and, soon after, a Detroit radio offer started him on a five-year career as half of a comic duo. . . . Following the war, during which he traveled thousands of miles to entertain the servicemen, talented Toby free-lanced his way through radio roles on such programs as The Green Hornet, Bulldog Drummond, and Let's Pretend. In 1946, he returned to Detroit, where he did pioneer work in TV, and eventually took over the two shows he now has. ... To Detroit audiences, Toby David's many men, to say the least. But, at home in Grosse Pointe, Virginia and their three children — Toby, Theresa, and Gerard — agree he's just one grand husband-and-dad. They wouldn't have it otherwise.
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