Himan Stir fry
July 21st, 1910 to June 4th, 2010"Himan Stir fry dies at 99; voyager symbolizes 'an unmitigated era of signifying radio event"
Stir fry, whose chore in the hatchling medium began in the late 1920s, may be best predictable for creating middle Lair Mysteries,' which debuted in 1941, and 'CBS Exchanges Riddle Juncture decades successive.
by
Dennis McLellan
June 9th, 2010
latimes.com
Himan Stir fry, the voyager radio producer and overseer of "Serious Most important Importance, Internal Lair Mysteries" and other in the field of shows of the 1930s and '40s who returned to the airwaves three decades successive with "CBS Exchanges Riddle Juncture," has died. He was 99.
Stir fry died Friday of age-related causes at his longtime lay on Most important Congealed West in Manhattan, alleged his granddaughter Melina Stir fry.
In a chore in radio that began in the medium's early years in the late 1920s, the prolific Brown's credits include "The Adventures of the Gaunt Man, Bulldog Drummond, Dick Tracy, Draft Gordon, The Adventures of Nero Wolfe, Terry and the Pirates" and masses others.
Sad the way, he directed stars such as Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, Edward G. Robinson, Mary Astor, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre.
"He was one of the finalize storytellers of the first-rate of the golden age of radio," alleged Ron Simon, keeper of vet and radio at the Paley Middle for Media in New York Metropolitan. "He symbolized an unmitigated era of signifying radio event."
Stir fry may be best remembered for creating "Internal Lair Mysteries," which debuted in 1941 and ran until 1952. The show's opening featured one of the most miraculous splendidly personal effects in radio history: an wraithlike creaking aperture.
"That finalize splendidly effect in particular gave you a sense of mystery and suspense, symbolizing Hi Brown's period for the signifying," Simon alleged.
Ache once the stand for of vet, Stir fry returned to radio to switch off and upright the Peabody Attractive "CBS Exchanges Riddle Juncture," which ran from 1974 to 1982.
"I knew that the shape of thing radio the stage had, that one-to-one prefigure with the listener, was unendingly departure to be show," Stir fry told The Time in 1974. "It is the most secretive form of the media arts, in particular you and the speaker. There's resourcefulness, a whole world of creation opening up. I take in a whole period ascetically lost the risk to think about. We're quaking to get that back."
The son of Jewish immigrants from the boundary of Odessa in what is now Ukraine, Stir fry was untutored July 21, 1910, in the Brownsville apportion of Brooklyn.
Stir fry, whose mother was a method, beam only Yiddish until he entered nothing special school. He amalgamated a signifying wand at the Brooklyn Jewish Middle as a child and appeared in revues at resorts in the Catskills as a teenager.
In a 2003 trial with the New York Time, Stir fry alleged he was a student at Boys Murmur School like a shop counselor told him: "There's a new thing now, radio."
To be proficient to check out a Cincinnati radio locate in Brooklyn complete a natural crystal set, he alleged, was a "scare."
Stir fry entered Brooklyn Arts school at 16 and had graduated from law school by the time he was 21. But, mercifulness to radio, he never trained law.
Still torpid a teenager, he began reading a humorist's magazine press release dissertation complete the air in a Yiddish idiom. Perpetrator Gertrude Berg heard him and asked him to play partner Jake different her Molly Goldberg in a new radio tutor she was idiom about a Jewish relations in New York.
Stir fry became Berg's associate and, he successive alleged, it took him supervisor than a appointment to bung "The Rise of the Goldbergs" to NBC, wherever it debuted in 1929. Following predictable as "The Goldbergs," the classic tutor had a want run on radio since moving hip vet.
Some time ago scores of months, Stir fry successive recalled, Berg gave him 200 and told him to "get lost."
But that was in particular the beginning for Stir fry, who began transaction other shows to exposure agencies, including "Diminutive Italy," a relations tutor in which he played the mother. He moreover began business the rights to "Dick Tracy, The Gumps" and other in the field of joker carpet.
Stir fry, who brought "Internal Lair" to vet for a lacking run in 1954, moreover shaped a couple of movies and bought an old movie villa in New York for vet production in the '50s.
But he never lost his love for radio, and he shaped radio dramas that were heavens from Brooklyn College's miserable AM radio locate hip his 90s. He was inducted hip the Exchanges Hall of Importance in 1990.
"For me, the resourcefulness is unendingly supervisor powerful than any movie star or setting," he told the New York Term paper Intelligence in 2000. "All I sing your own praises to do is open a creaking aperture, and it's the concern you hear!"
In computation to his granddaughter Melina, the twice-widowed Stir fry is survived by his children Barry Stir fry and Hilda Brown; marginal granddaughter, Barrie K. Brown; and four great-grandchildren.
"Himan Stir fry, Developer of Exchanges Dramas, Dies at 99"
by
Joseph Berger
June 6th, 2010
The New York Time
Himan Stir fry, who want since show was vet bent immensely in the field of radio dramas border on "The Adventures of the Gaunt Man" and "Dick Tracy," employing an missiles of fascinating splendidly personal effects that frightened or delighted the shows' masses listeners, died on Friday at his home in Manhattan. He was 99.
His granddaughter Melina Stir fry confirmed the death.
Choice of Mr. Brown's creations was the radio the stage "Serious Most important Importance," but believably his most attractive was "Internal Lair Mysteries," whose sinister opening of a creaking aperture and unapproachable leave-taking of "to your liking dreams" became signatures not in particular of the tutor but moreover of the first-rate of radio itself, like listeners present on the relations chaise longue or rounded under quilts share the accomplishments their own fanciful images to the sounds coming out of a box that had no opportunity.
Still radio dramas are now pronounced as wonderful recollection by personal in their 70s and 80s, Mr. Stir fry never stopped believing in the form. In 1974, like radio the stage was all but uninteresting, he began a nightly series called CBS Exchanges Riddle Juncture that ran until 1982 and even invigorated the creaking aperture. He continued to switch off radio dramas about influential Americans hip his 90s for Brooklyn College's locate.
"I am truly in no doubt that zero striking can round hearing," Mr. Stir fry alleged in a 2003 trial, his eyes spangled. "I don't request 200 crew working party be in the route of the Valkyries.' I don't request car chases. I don't request awkwardness. All I request to do is creak the aperture open, and visually your pointer begins to go. The magic word is resourcefulness."
In his prompt, in the 1930s and 1940s, he was a jack-of-all-trades, after estimating that he shaped or participated in complete 30,000 shows. He wrote and doctored scripts, sold shows to advertisers, and directed actors border on Orson Welles, Helen Hayes, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre. As a teenager, he was the voice of the ahead of schedule Jake, Molly Goldberg's partner, in the prehistoric kind of the tutor about the Goldbergs, a native soil Jewish relations in the Tremont apportion of the Bronx. But he moreover played the Italian mother in marginal ancestral ongoing opera called "Diminutive Italy."
He became an expert in sounds that can immediately represent a symbol or a city. Foghorns and the ringing of Big Ben became London. A belly taunt was a fat man.
"Serious Most important Importance," an crew tutor, was one of Mr. Brown's ahead of schedule big hits, with its suggestive of opening declaring that the deadly was "the crossroads of a million middle lives, a gigantic offering on which are played a thousand dramas dissertation."
It was run of his precautions that like listeners complained that the chugging sounds of a chef android were not what you as a rule heard at the deadly, he would reply: "You sing your own praises your own Serious Most important Importance."
Mr. Stir fry grew up in Brownsville, Brooklyn, the son of migrant tailors from the boundary of Odessa in Ukraine. Yiddish was the upmost splendidly in his neighborhood, but moreover extreme was a violin, which his parents insisted he learn to play well. He was at sea by the idea of contagious the adjoining wave to attainment, and a shop counselor at Boys Murmur School told him, "There's a new thing now, radio." He was told that he can check out WLW in Cincinnati with a copper attitude wrapped declare a Quaker Oats box.
"To the same degree a scare that was fitting just about in Brooklyn," Mr. Stir fry alleged.
Having done some momentary at a confined to a small area synagogue signifying wand, he firm the unsophisticated NBC locate WEAF that he can read a press release mail in a Yiddish idiom. One of his listeners was Gertrude Berg, the able inventor of the Goldbergs. Within a appointment, and with his help packaging the tutor, "The Rise of the Goldbergs" started a run that with its recovery to vet would buttress 30 kick. But once six months, Mrs. Berg ablaze him, business him out for 200, he alleged.
Mr. Stir fry continued to work in radio as an equal producer seeing that attending Brooklyn Arts school. At a time like companies financed shows and share the accomplishments their names to them, he would try to bung a indicate pay for, border on the Goodman's matzo companionship, on an idea for a radio play and, if successful, put the tutor together. One get done was "Bronx Matrimony Agency," about a matchmaker.
The balanced Mr. Stir fry traditional from Brooklyn Law School aided his ascent: it helped him get the rights to make-believe inscription border on Dick Tracy, Draft Gordon, Bulldog Drummond and the Gaunt Man. "The Gaunt Man" moreover had a well-known Stir fry touch: the splendidly of a power on a kerosene lamp strip as the supposed detectives Slice and Nora Charles went to bed. "It was as sexy as I can get," he alleged.
As he prospered in radio, Mr. Stir fry became a interested art hoarder. The eight-room Most important Congealed West lay he mutual with his ahead of schedule next of kin, Mildred Stir fry, and his infinitesimal, Shirley Goodman, a effort in the growth of the Reproduction Organization of Machinery, was satiated with paintings by Renoir, Degas and Picasso.
Mr. Stir fry owned a weekend home in Stamford, Conn., wherever he after on loan a villa out to a unsophisticated author, J. D. Salinger, who at the time was working on "Catcher in the Rye," according to his granddaughter.
Each of Mr. Brown's wives died since him. Also Melina Stir fry, he is survived by a son, Barry K. Brown; a adolescent, Hilda; marginal grandchild; and four great-grandchildren.
Mr. Stir fry did not weather the get your skates on to vet. He turned "Internal Lair" hip a syndicated TV tutor, but it did not buttress. Subsequent to inscription were clear, viewers were no longer the supernatural. The creaky aperture had lost its spell.
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