DAVID ROSS . . . tried his hand as
newsboy, reporter, actor and teacher before he took up radio. Writes poetry. Born
in New York in 1895. Struggled against poverty; worked his way through college.
He’s 5 feet 5 inches tall.
DAVID ROSS
ANNOUNCER AND POETRY – LOVER
IT should take a casr-iron set of
vocal chords to withstand the strain of the different assignments and
excitements in an announcer’s life. Yet the silver-bell tones of David Ross
sound as mellifluous as ever, after more than fifteen years spent on the air. His
mellow voice is still heard caressing the air waves as announcer for such shows
as the Andre Kostelanetz program on CBS every Sunday afternoon at 4:30 E.W.T.
The long-lasting melody in David’s
voice may seem from the fact that he has a poet’s soul. It was his habit of
carrying around a collection of poetry that got him his start in radio.
The very first program he’d ever
seen was the one on which he made his debut. Instead of watching the mysterious
process of broadcasting, as he’s expected, he substituted for the absent
announcer by reading from a book of Edgar Poe’s poems. The manager liked his
voice so well that he offered him a regular job immediately.
Since then he has made a place for
himself as one of the best known and most popular announcers on the air. He was
the first to introduce such personalities as Walter Winchell, Andrew Kostelanetz,
Rudy Vallee and the late Will Rogers.
In more serious vein this winner
of diction awards once led a crusade for correct pronunciation. The measured
accents of his own voice probably reached an all-time high on his
poetry-reading programs. One of these, “Poet’s Gold,” was so popular he brought
out an anthology of poems under that title.
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