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Show By LYN CONNELLY TWO of the brightest branches on the Mutual Network's family fami-ly tree are tha names of "Bob and Ray" whose mad, look-ma-no-hands type of humor (Monday thru Friday) answers those people who thought radio comedy, snowfalls and old gray mares aren't what they used to be ... To go formal, Mr. Elliot and Mr. Gouldlng have the literate, civilized approach of the late Fred Allen and Henry Morgan . . . Their delivery is "sincere." "sin-cere." It is cream-tongued Bob and Ray, sounding like the-announcer-next-door, who advises us "The United States Mint, Makers of Money" and "Chocolate Cookies, with White Stuff in the Middle," present "The Sixty-Four Cent Question" and "Mary Backstage, Noble Wife" ... It is "benevolent" Bob and Ray that tell us their overstocked warehouse is bulging with second-hand, first aid kits, although "some of the bandages have been used and will have to be rinsed" ... It Is public service-minded service-minded Bob and Ray who inform us when "Be-Sick-A-Hat-Week" comes around and when the next meeting for the Preservation of tha Dutch Elm convenes. I Like the Cabots, Bob and Ray gained their fame In Boston, but "they were practically unknown until they became popular" . . Massacbusetts-born, both also attended at-tended dramatic schools in New York and served radio apprenticeships apprentice-ships as pares . . . The two comedians come-dians were In the army, "performing "perform-ing glorious errands" in World War II ... In 1946 at Boston, Bob was a disc jockey while Ray handled the announcing chores . . . Their dead-pan asides to each other bad the local Boston fans in hysterics with the result that the "Bob and Ray Show" was born . . . The soap operettas, giveaway shows and Interview sessions haven't been safe since. |