European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1968, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I was doing dialects and funny voices even As a kid. Us Man of a thousand voices by Jerry Buck a staff writer a few years ago a struggling Young actor named Allen Swift went Down to one of the networks to audition for Ajob As staff announcer. He was handed four or five pieces of copy to read and afterwards the pro Ducer came out of the control Booth i hysterics. Swift it turned out had read each announcement in a different voice. That s great. Simply great the pro Ducer told him. But sorry we want All our announcers to sound  May have been a temporary Dis appointment for Swift but it did t hold him Back. You can t turn on a television set or radio today without hearing his voice and Likely As not it s different each , a Man who is Seldom seen does More commercials than anyone else. He has More than 400 playing at this time and in All he s done More than 20,000. Because of his great facility for voices and dialects Swift is said to be the Only one in the business allowed tomake commercials for competing products. Swift 44, who with a Blond moustache and a Spade Beard looks remarkably like Peter Ustinov is All of the voices for Tom and Jerry underdog and other  such a thing you make a Liv ing he admits with a  is the announcer for the presiden tial Campaign spots for sen. Eugene , a Minn. The same function he served with Adlay  was the voice of Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower in the motion picture the longest  and when a sports figure can t put enough sell into his endorse ment. Swift Steps in. He has even substituted for other announcers using their voice. I can t say that i be made a Spe Cial study of dialects but i listen con stantly. I Don t keep any kind of Book but it gets stored away and 1 can Call on it when i need  up a Cigar Swift said he takes no special precautions to preserve his voice. I think use strengthens it just like exercise. Page 14 i was doing dialects and funny voice seven As a kid and my Mother was Al ways telling me to Stop talking like that or i d ruin my voice. You know i be heard my wife telling my son the something. He just finished an engagement with the Road show of fiddler on thereof " Swift got into commercials in 1954when he was the voice of All the puppets on the Howdy Doody  one Day an advertising Agency called up and asked who was the voice of a cer Tain puppet. The network told them twas Allen Swift and they hired me for a commercial. A later they called again and asked who was the voice of another puppet an again the network told them it was Al Len Swift. So i did another commercial and one just Lead to another after  Swift said the anonymity is some thing that would have bothered him As a Young Man but today i m grateful Forit. I have two Little girls and i can take them into the Park and nobody knows me. After a Mike Douglas show i was recognized everywhere i went it seems and i did t care for it at All. What Hap pens to Well known people they can t go out on the  Swift s voices have their uses out Side television. When his Secretary s away he answers in her voice. And once when an artist Friend did t get paid for a piece of work Swift used a British accent in a bit of subterfuge to collect the  big thing in the future is a Tele vision interview show he has create called a Date with  he has taped several Pilot shows in a studio reconverted from an apartment. We interview great men on contemporary problems and they answer in their own words he said. For in stance Mark Twain Speaks out on the problems of youth and Nicolo Machia Velli talks about Vietnam and the Politi Cal  William Redfield is the interview Rand Swift does All the other parts with the Aid of makeup and costume. "1 like.0 play roles where nobody recognizes me he said. 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