Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-23
"Gral1am
McNanee
Speaking .

a new one and wear it out on the
street it begins to rain.
She made me get a new one yester-
day. Today I got caught in the storm
and now that new hat looks like all
the others I've ever had. Its gloss Is
gone, the brim droops on one side and
has scallops on the other. There was
plenty of SCOT in the air and it left
black streaks everywhere 1t landed.
AS q matter of fact, can keep a
hat looking fairly well II my luck
isn't worse than usual until I go to q
foot ball game or q fight. At most
fights I manage to lose my hat COM
pletely. It isn't that I forget 1t, but
when I'm ready to leave ! ind that
I've allowed it to roll on somewhere.
II one of those trampled hats beside
the ring really were mine wouldn't
dare bring it home anyway.
hand when I'm on the air find that
I usually manage to crumple it into .
ball through sheer nervousness. A hat
belonging to some one else would do just
as well, but the engineers and others
who are used to me manage TO keep
theirs out of the way. Mrs. McNamee
has threatened to sit beside me when
I'm on the air at game or hight ana
rap my knuckles with ruler every
time I start wadding up my hat.
It really would be q lot more COM
Portable. though, if she'd let me keep on
wearing the old hats. I'd let her have
her way about my ties and shirts. And
at that, think it might be good idea
to point out that my new hat really
did bring on rain again.
WHENEVER Brad Sutton tells people
w he really got his start as an actor
through barking for street fairs their
laws drop with establishment. Usually
fhev think he must have been lawyer,
particularly an expert on some sucn
subject as corporation law.
He's a big, dignified fellow. Some
times he is taken for a banker or an
executive of a big company. His gray
hair is flowing In line, out not IN
length. It would be impossible. as
matter of fact, to spot him as an actor
| IL YOU met him on the street.
Sutton. when he reminiSces between
hroadcasts (you hear him as Capt.
Haft") admits readily enough that ne
started his professional career In small
time vaudeville as q ventriloquist-
gican. It went well enough until. DUR
| Ing one of those rests" so familiar TO
the theatrical profession, his landlaoy
attached his trunks, containing all his
paraphernalia.
And so Sutton became master OF
ceremonies" at carnivals and street
fairs. He has a hearty voice, and II
stood by him-even when he worked
once in cage of trained animals That
voice never faltered once, says Sutton,
even when he himself was ready to call
1t day after lions paw had missed
him by a couple Of inches.
Thee came a fling at stock and q
successful career as a lecturer on the
Arctic. He took a very early movie ex-
hibition into Canada, with such poor
success that he went back to the stage
and remained there, playing vaudeville
burlesque and stock, until about two
years ago, when he got into broad
casting.
He is an excellent character actor
and an unusually hard worker. His
voice is so distinctive, however, that ii
is seldom he is allowed to work in more
than three or four programs week.
X X
THE mysterious announcer, Ward VIII
son, who did so well on q recent
program by Peter Van Steeden and his