"EDISON THE MAN."
George Meader, stage actor, spent as much time preparing for his role in "Edison, the Man," as he did acting it on the screen. He plays the brief, but difficult, role of a minister who demands that Spencer Tracy, as Thomas Edison, let him test the talking machine to prove whether or not it is a trick of ventriloquism. When given permission, he speaks eight tongue-twisting Biblical names, only half of which are familiar to the average person. He articulates them slowly, then at lightning speed. Meader. who recently finished four years with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on the stage, and has spoken difficult lines in everything from Shakespeare to Gilbert and Sullivan, said that learning the eight words was the most difficult task he has ever had. He first looked up the pronunciations in concordances and dictionaries and checked them with minister friends. Then he practised them. The preparation took a day; so did his part. The names he rattled off were Mahalaleel, Methuselah, Arphaxad, Hazarmaveth, Chedorlaomer, Zephaniah, Obadiah, and Nebuchadnezzar.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 76, 26 September 1940, Page 18
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176"EDISON THE MAN." Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 76, 26 September 1940, Page 18
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