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Married. Freeman Gosden, 45, philosophic, long-suffering "Amos" of radio's perennial Amos 'n' Andy (back on the air this month); and Jane Stoneham, 21 daughter of the New York Giants' late owner, Charles Stoneham; he for the second time; in Scotia, Calif...
Since March 1928, when Freeman F. Gosden, onetime egg-bearer for Thurston the Magician, became the long-suffering Amos, and Charles J. Correll, onetime Peoria bricklayer, became turgid, blustering Andy, they have had but one vacation -eight weeks in 1934. Now 43 and 52, respectively, they have salted away plenty, earned a rest. Their last reported salary (1938) was $7,500 weekly...
Divorced. Freeman F. Gosden, 41. Virginia-born tenor half of the radio team "Amos V Andy"; by Leta S. Gosden, 40; after twelve years' marriage; because he had become "sullen and morose"; in Los Angeles...
...once sang on the Barn Dance. So did Ruth Etting, at first for nothing and then for $5 a night. Tony Wons read poetry and streamlined Shakespeare for the station. Fibber McGee & Molly worked there before they adopted those names, as did Charles J. Correll and Freeman F. Gosden, now known as Amos 'n' Andy. For ten years the station has received more than 1,000,000 letters annually, a record...
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...