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Bricklayer's dream became a great radio money-puller
New York. THE STORY OF
N the days when he
earned his living as a AMOS & ANDY
bricklayer, young
Charlie Correll used to
Bv
fortify himself with JACK CLARK
thoughts of Brahms,
Even Brahms played the
A
into the
Goeden has been twee mire
Mr.
ried. By his first wife, who died same years ago, he has a ton and daughter The second Amos" was the former Jant Stonema. Is the mother of a three-year-old daught
She
and Andy oro not wither a belief in luck
London Express Sérvios
·Andy-and “Mrs.. Andy,”
not in 1926 that they decided to try comedy." Sam und Henry was the name of the act originally, In 1928 they ward riding up to the radio station in
the lift one day when the Negro
it-mwho had coined his own kind of. rhymingslang
"Hello, addressed and of them. famous Amos" and the other as Handy Andy" They had changed the name of the act before they stepped
out fast after that
writing. Now more than a,score and
Fabbit's usted cold all their ow
numerical colne:dence
they
had
GOES ON THE business just moves along now, without them. While they were junketing around the summer
before let Gosdens looking at the Festival of Britpin, the Corrells touring FIRST JOB
shrines in France. end Italy was in 1830-that they met, another couple
ple of milion dollars but four years had passed be- fell into their lap when a a brewing fore they landed their Arst radio
decided to sponsor A for in Ung backroom station recorded zeralon
ion of their show.
plano in a beer hall to make models for Hope and Skelton,
they did enough to pay the rent. So and a score more.
song-writers werk 03 their what WOS wrong with Now they are to retire at the not 'discover until they had been of professional fag-men
end-back season's
for some years. Filling material. partnere Charlie Correll doing much
anonymity from which they in some officiel papers che day
together found
they the same, and then getting never really emerged-while the
the
Gosden been born et 711. East up at five to shoulder. the characters they created B Marshall Street, in Richmond, hod for another 10-hour romping on.
Millions of their fans know so Virginia, and Correll at 711. day?
Hancock Ettle of them they are not even
Street, In Peoria, Illinois. Charile Cercle dream re- sure whether they are Negroes volved around somebody who or not. They are not. Gosden could sing. If only he could and Correll have been content mast En embitious youngster to let the limelight shine on the with a voice, preferably one creatures of their creation. with a turn for humour, There There was a
a time when they was honey in it, especially with were more tes popular emang this new thing called radio America's coloured, people, for in Chicago. In those days Gosden. Thel's the sort of thing that coming up. Why, even the the copressed Nogro is sensitive echoolboys on the cammer of the to regular portrayal of his race played the ukelele and Correll happens in America when your dreams of musty old Jobmes In the office of doorman and
Brahms and his beer hall piano- thumping gol mixed up with a cat's whisker.
acal'a literate
ne'er-do-well.
Bui
block tinkered incessantly, with in something they called whisk and made sounds come even the ranks of Harlem into their carphones.
stayed to cheer.
GRAVELLY
JUST about then Freeman
Gosden chanced along, Gosden could sing, but not too well His voice had a gravelly deep-down-
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Today Freeman Gesden (he's Amos) and Charlie Cortell (Andy) are among the richest
men in show business.
FOR WARMTH
and-never-come-up sound. But ORRELL, just 60, is the eldar of the poir by what It lacked in tone it more than made up in its ability to a few years, With his wife make people laugh.
and five children, he lives The pair teamed up and on a large estate on Holly- headed for Broadway, Liko wood's expensive Sumet Boule- others before them and plenty vard. That, he once said, is not since they found it a rocky because he cares especially for road. It: Red them chießy Hollywood. He lives out West through the emall-town car- because there the sun shines grounds year often and he has a Southerner's after your, often without enough taste for
for warmth. money for a meal,
Amos-or Mr Golden-lives But they kept. the cat's with Mrs Gosden not far
for away. whisker firmly in view, and took in Beverly Hills,
Alm stars with Alm the
Theirs, too. when others dared for plunge
neighbours. not. radio almost on the an impressive home, though small ground floor, they dropped their by Hollywood standards 10 black-face comedians: (without Gosden fleet of the burned cork, for there was private Gooders swimming pool. vision audience then) and it is a must on the list of every Ames and Andy was born. I tourist bus. The guide can to lapse say "was, for they have been a always be depended on singular sort of plural for 25 Into a graval-voiced drode up years the greatest money- posed to resemble the voice that pulling act in radio, the people rumbled half-way around the Big Business perambled for, world.
own identities, became a pair of rooth plate plus garage for the
and the
Motorists Will See Round Corners
Geneva.
AN Ingenious systent of movable headlights for cars
which throws their hight round a corner as the car takes the band has been invented by an Italian engineer in Turing
The system, which is now being tried out on Swiss mountain buses, is regarded by test drivers as a success. Two lamps bullt on swivels are fixed by a cable un- derneath the chails of the car which joins to a block fixed to the front-wheel brake drumstemm
When the driving whool is (ürned, to, the loft, side, the loft- hand: Things fe- turned, while the right lamp remains stationary, When the car la turnal to the elith the left lamp remains Idio and the right Flamp turns in the direction the can le taking I tina
the car and therefore allows up the kerb and." bend before the car findit han fuined into the new direction. A .......... On winding monks, or in for the hyalemg cellent. It canike fixed to any car at a mode News Service,
DEPETHE AWbance of the swivelling lampa ls, groaters than
anglo
strummed the piano. Both after a fashion.
sang, They still took themselves seriously in those days. It was
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