Editing Alan Reed (section)

==Early life==
Herbert Theodore Bergman was born on August 20, 1907, in [[New York City]] to Jewish parents.<ref name="alan"/> His father was a Lithuanian-Jewish immigrant and his mother was born in the United States to Ukrainian-Jewish parents from [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]].<ref name="alan">[http://www.jewishhumorcentral.com/2010/10/fred-flintstone-stone-age-star-with.html "Fred Flintstone: A Stone Age Star With A Jewish Voice."] ''Jewish Humor Central.com'', October 10, 2010. Retrieved August 19, 2014.</ref> He attended George Washington High School<ref name="bde042432">{{Cite news |last=Schmidt |first=Bill Jr. |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3815177/the_brooklyn_daily_eagle |title=Airy Chats |date=April 24, 1932 |work=[[Brooklyn Eagle|Brooklyn Daily Eagle]] |access-date=December 12, 2015 |page=E9 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}{{Open access}}</ref> (now [[George Washington Educational Campus]]) and majored in [[journalism]] at [[Columbia University]].{{Citation needed |date=February 2022}} 

Between graduating from WHS and entering Columbia, he studied drama at the [[American Academy of Dramatic Arts]].<ref name="dj">{{Cite news |last=Witte |first=Lawrence |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3821613/denton_journal/ |title=Static |date=December 9, 1960 |work=Denton Journal |access-date=December 13, 2015 |page=10 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Open access}}</ref> He began his acting career in the city, eventually working on [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]].

For several years, Reed toured in [[vaudeville]] with his cousin, Harry Green.<ref name="rs2">{{Cite book |last=Cox |first=Jim |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PGY5AQAAIAAJ&q=reed |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{{snd}}A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=McFarland & Company, Inc. |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7864-6086-1 |pages=234–235 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> He also had two other jobs—operating a wholesale candy factory and working at the Copake Country Club as "social director, entertainment producer and actor".<ref name=dj/>