Word: broadcasting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amos 'n' Andy. She dedicated programs to shut-ins, plugged firemen's benefits, camps for underprivileged, visited cripples, became radio's No. 1 Benefit Girl. To "expand her prestige as an outstanding American woman" Collins last year arranged a three-a-week noonday broadcast of homely comment, book & play criticism. Sensitive to the rising tide of Broadway patrioteering, Kate last year got Irving Berlin to write God Bless America exclusively for her, sang it week after week until last month, when it was released to other patrioteers...
...Fresh Air Taxicab Co. of America Incorpulated, through this winter's Harlem World's Fair, unfailing inventiveness has maintained radio's Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) 'n' Andy (Charles J. Correll) as the U. S.'s favorite blackface pair. For their April 3 broadcast, the day they moved over to CBS after eleven years with NBC, Amos 'n' Andy cooked up a superspecial episode. Andy, long a wary bachelor, let himself and an $800 bankroll be lured to a Harlem altar by a schemestress named Puddin' Face. But just as the preacher...
Last week not only Amos 'n' Andy, their 8,000,000 followers and Sponsor Campbell Soup, but a great many U. S. legal lights were still wondering. Before the broadcast a reassuring number of preachers, lawyers, etc. had advised Gosden and Correll that unless the clinching words ". . . man and wife," were pronounced, the marriage would be unbinding. But after the broadcast the CBS publicity staff discovered that the New York marriage law does not require the last three words to clinch a marriage contract. By week's end informed opinion was about evenly divided. Sample comments...
...ideal equipment hoped for by the group is a two room set-up with the acting going on in one and the recording in the other. In this way the effect of a broadcast will be achieved, for the program will be reproduced by a loud speaker and defects in it may be corrected before the actual recording takes place...
...chemical makeup of the record must be neither too hard nor too soft; high and low notes must be carefully merged together. In all of these factors the staff plans extensive experimentation in order to learn the fundamentals of what goes on behind the scenes in a radio broadcast...