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Born. To Freeman ("Amos") Gosden, blackface broadcaster, teammate of Charles ("Andy") Correll; a daughter. Weight: 5 Ibs. Name: Virginia Marie...
Robert H. Lucas, U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, telegraphed "Amos 'n' Andy" (real names: Freeman F. Gosden and Charles J. Correll), famed radio blackface comedy team (TIME, March 3), in response to their petition that he extend time for filing the tax return of their business enterprise-Fresh-Air Taxi Co. of America, Incorpulated: "This propolition has been most doubtful, but restention will be granted...
High-voiced Amos is Freeman F. Gosden, 31, native of Richmond, Va. He is a tall, erect blonde with tight, wavy hair, a broad brow and wide-set eyes. He was raised with a Negro "mammy" and a Negro playmate from whom he gained much of his extraordinary knowledge of racial peculiarities. Aged 10, he dove into Annette Kellerman's tank. Aged 12, he held eggs for the magician Thurston. For a year he went to military school in Atlanta. During the War he served in the Navy, then became a traveling tobacco salesman. Returning to Richmond...
...piano in a cinemahouse at night. He won local dancing contests, sang in minstrel shows, acted in neighborhood dramas. Finally he too became a professional coach. One of his assignments was in Durham, N. C., where he had to teach the business to a neophyte named Freeman F. Gosden. For six years they staged musical shows, plays and circuses for such organizations as the Elks, American Legion and Shriners, carried properties and costumes around the country in innumerable trunks. In 1924 they were made office managers of the company, took a Chicago apartment. For fun they obtained a radio tryout...
After that, radio's invisible filaments slowly sensitized the entire nation to their talk, and the nation liked it. They have always written every word of their material. They make phonograph records as Amos 'n' Andy and, of their singing, as Correll & Gosden. In 1927 both were married. They are completely absorbed by their work; wherever they go they mingle with Negroes to develop their style and substance. Negroes delight in them because they recreate, not burlesque, the Negro attitude and idiom. Those who have seen them broadcast say that they often have to smother their...