Word: gosden
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Over station WMAQ, Chicago, on the night of March 28, 1928, the nation first heard the radio blackface comic strip team of Amos and Andy. Amos (Freeman F. Gosden), the patient and long-suffering one, was discovered plaintively complaining about having to do all the work on their Georgia farm while dumb, blustering Andy (Charles J. Correll) loafed under a shade tree. Amos and Andy soon went north to Chicago to find work...
...Vice President Frederick W. Walker, one-time construction engineer, and a salesman named Charles Edgar Albright, who is conceded to have sold more million-dollar policies than any man in the history of life insurance. (Some of his clients: Walter P. Chrysler Jr., Arthur Brisbane, Eugene Meyer, Freeman F. Gosden, Charles J. Correll ["Amos 'n' Andy"], Harry Frankel [Barbasol's ''Singin' Sam"] and many another radio celebrity.) Between the trustees' deadlocked meeting in June and their session last week Candidates Walker and Albright successfully eliminated each other. Their supporters voted for Dark Horse...
...heard of me. Sometimes the customers drink in my presence. . . . Usually when they hear what I have to say the drinking stops, for I always say to the bartender or the owner: 'Aren't you ashamed to be in such a contemptible business?' " Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and President Matthew Scott Sloan of New York Edison Co. were guests of Bernard Gimbel, department-store man, at a luncheon in Manhattan. Chaffed Tycoon Sloan: "Now tell us, what made Madame Queen faint in the courtroom?" Retorted Amos: "She saw her electric light bill...
Madame Queen, who for more than a year has been a crucial offstage character in Freeman F. ("Amos") Gosden and Charles J. ("Andy") Correll's radio skits, surprised the radiaudience by speaking out for the first time. Since last Christmas when Andy, who had met Mme Queen as a manicurist, felt his ardor for her cool, Messrs. Gosden & Correll have marched their story bit-by-bit right into a breach-of-promise courtroom. There it was necessary to have Mme Queen's testimony. So high-voiced Amos spoke for her (as he does for The Kingfish, Brother Crawford...
Check and Double Check (RKO). Knowing that the cinema audience is to a large extent the radio audience of the U. S., the producers of any effort whose cast included Amos (Freeman F. Gosden) and Andy (Charles J. Correll) could be certain of attention at the box office. But material like this could command nothing but the very mildest attention if the radio audience were not the cinema audience. The explanation of the success of the blackface pair in broadcast is that they have created a fiction just funny enough to make people want to hear its nightly continuation...