| 词条 | Ted Jewett |
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Early life and educationJewett was born in Yokohama, Japan in 1904. His father, John H. Jewett, worked in the Oriental silk trade, and served as Denmark's consul to Yokohama. Prince Valdemar, a friend of the Jewett family, named him to that post. Jewett grew up speaking both Japanese and Danish.[1] In 1910, Jewett moved to Plainfield, New Jersey with his parents. He attended local elementary and middle schools up until the age of 14. Jewett graduated from the Morristown School (now Morristown-Beard School) in Morristown, New Jersey in 1922. He then earned his bachelor's degree at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.[2] During his school years, Jewett showed an interest in both elocution and public speaking. He aimed to work as an actor or statesman.[3] However, Jewett transitioned into the silk trade after college. While working in the family business, he gained an interest in radio announcing.[1] Radio careerLacking a microphone, Jewett practiced announcing on the radio by using a tin can tied to a stick.[1] He joined the announcing staff at NBC in 1930 after passing their microphone exam. The exam required him to speak a tongue-twister without stammering or whistling: "The seething sea ceaseth and thus the seething sea sufficeth us." He also had to demonstrate fluency in a foreign language.[4] (Jewett was fluent in Japanese from his childhood years.) Jewett passed the test despite having had no previous announcing experiences. In the fall of 1930, he joined the nighttime announcing staff at NBC[5] after working as a daytime announcer for four months. Two years later, NBC promoted Jewett to supervisor of nighttime announcing and director of operations.[6] He served in that role until 1934.[7] Jewett achieved notoriety for voicing characters on the series Cavalcade of America[8] and The March of Time.[9] Cavalcade of America was a DuPont-sponsored anthology drama series. The March of Time was the first dramatized newsreel to air on radio. The Time-sponsored program re-enacted real news events with accompanying musical tunes and sound effects. Jewett also appeared on Jolly Bill and Jane,[10] Ellen Randolph,[11] Chicago Theater of the Air, and G. E. Circle.[12] During the 1940s, he served as an announcer for Robert Ripley's show Believe It or Not.[13] He also served as an announcer for Let's Pretend, a children's show on CBS radio.[14] In 1931, Jewett served as one of the announcers of the U.S. Army's mimic battle over Manhattan Island. The nationally broadcast minic battle demonstrated what a war-time attack on New York City might look like. It involved 672 airplanes manned by 1,484 military personnel swooping over the city's skyscrapers. Jewett announced the mimic battle from a transport plane.[15] Later that year, he had a car accident while traveling to announce the departure of Charles Lindbergh to Japan. The accident near North Beach Airport in Queens put Jewett in the hospital.[16] Vocal impressionsDuring his career, Jewett's most known vocal impressions included those of:
FamilyJewett married Grace Elizabeth Fisher, a violinist with the Parnassus Trio, in 1931.[21] After she died from polio,[22] he married Winnefred Jewett. They had a daughter together, Priscilla. Grace Elizabeth Fisher was the daughter of Alexander Sibbald Fisher and Sarah Murrey. see NYC marriage record. References1. ^1 2 {{cite news | newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | title=Land Where Dreams Come True | date=April 3, 1932}} {{authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Jewett, Ted}}2. ^{{cite book | title=Radio Announcers, 1933 | publisher=C. Dewitt White Co. | year=1932 | chapter=Edward K. Jewett | page=17}} 3. ^{{cite book | title=Golden Throats and Silver Tongues: The Radio Announcers | pages=87–88 | year=1978 | first=Ray | last=Poindexter | publisher=River Road Press}} 4. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | title=Listening-In | first=ORRIN E. | last=DUNLAP Jr. | date=December 20, 1931}} 5. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Lincoln Star | title=Hall New Announcer | date=October 12, 1930}} 6. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | title=Jewett Promoted | date=April 24, 1932}} 7. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | title=On the Dotted Line | date=October 20, 1934}} 8. ^{{cite book|title=The Concise Encyclopedia of American Radio | editor1=Chris Sterling |editor2=Cary O'Dell | year=2011 | chapter=Cavalcade of America | page=135}} 9. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Chicago Tribune | title=News of the Radio Stations | date=October 17, 1936}} 10. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Sun | title=Water Wistle Failed to Help the Bird Call | date=September 21, 1930}} 11. ^{{cite book | title=The A to Z of American Radio Soap Operas | year=2009 | first=Jim | last=Cox | page=75}} 12. ^1 {{cite book | title=Radio Speakers: Narrators, News Junkies, Sports Jockeys, Tattletales, Tipsters, Toastmasters and Coffee Klatch Couples who Verbalized the Jargon of the Aural Ether from the 1920s to the 1980s: a Biographical Dictionary | year=2007 | chapter=Jewett, Edward K. | first=Jim | last=Cox | pages=151–152}} 13. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Belvidere Daily Republican | title='Wings of Navy' on Air Waves Tonight | date=October 7, 1940}} 14. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.radiogoldindex.com/cgi-local/p2.cgi?ProgramName=Let%27s+Pretend |title=Let's Pretend}} 15. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | date=May 17, 1931 | title=Radio Plans for the Air Raid; 672 Planes to Fly in Wartime Attack on New York Called "Greatest Mimic Battle"--Corps of Announcers on Duty At the Master Gate. Foulois to Speak. Columbia's Plans}} 16. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Sun | title=Damage To Lindbergh Radio Is Repaired | agency=The Associated Press | date=July 30, 1931}} 17. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | title=Behind the Scenes; Women's Group Resumes Radio Reviews | date=October 18, 1936}} 18. ^1 {{cite journal | journal=Princeton Alumni Weekly | title=With the Alumni | page=25 | volume=43 | issue=December 11}} 19. ^1 {{cite news | newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel | title='March of Time' Actors in Role of Candidates | date=April 19, 1936}} 20. ^1 2 3 4 {{cite news | newspaper=The Milwaukee Sentinel | date=December 26, 1936 | title=Mimics Learn Tricks by Ear; Few Actors Meet Originals}} 21. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press | title=Microphone Musings | first=S. H. | last=Steinhauser | date=August 3, 1931}} 22. ^{{cite news | newspaper=The New York Times | title=CITY RECORD SHOWS PARALYSIS ON WANE | date=August 23, 1931}} 7 : American male radio actors|People from Yokohama|People from Plainfield, New Jersey|Princeton University alumni|1904 births|1961 deaths|Morristown-Beard School alumni |
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