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THE CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE? Jan. lf 13 An American Institution: Amos 'n Andy mm Doug Has No Title but He Is Diplomat Nonetheless LflHriLakJh. I As They're Lived by Gosden and Correll George of Great Britain, princes and prime ministers, labor lead- cent and inflection unconsciously. and Communists, and just to they spend at their Beverly By Howard C. Heyn.

plain people. Correll laughs at the script as heartily as tho audience. But Hills offices that were once occupied Will Rogers. There are And when he came back Presi HOLLYWOOD (AP) Amos 'n' Andy gave me a knowing neither resorts to mugging or gag dent Truman called him in to find out what's what over there. Fair look and leaned far over tho table, like a couple of conspir Br ging in the show warm-up.

They never wear blackface during tho broadcast no identifying names on we doors. Gosden and Correll work on opposite sides of a marble-topped desk. There they polish up the ators. wmm- We got news for you," whis banks told him. And that's when the latest diplomatic rumors started.

"Honeymoon." "This trip just sort of snow Most studio spectators think they look like bankers. Fans don't pered Charles "Andy" Correll. 'AMta aava-a DllKv OM ar'Y0 if working script produced in recognize them readily outside tho lengthy sessions with the seven mm i have another baby!" Freeman "Amos" Gosden looked a il 'III 111 BnW writers in adjoining rooms. Dialect. as coy as if he were an expectant balled into a goodwill tour," he explained.

"Actually, Mary Lee and I parked all three kids at home and started on our honey father. studio. Over tho years they have broadcast under all manner of conditions: In the men's room of a theater where they were on personal appearance, in a hospital With almost any other radio By Virginia MacPhrrson. TTOLLYWOOD (UP) Those rumors that Douglas Fairbanks, is quitting the movies for an ambassador's job somewhere in the world are going round again, and Fairbanks is denying them like the diplomat he ays he -isn't going to be. can't," he says baldly, "afford it" Bat he Is all the time pepping np in places like the White House or congressional committee rooms or peace conferences from South America to Geneva.

And every time fie does, those stories pop right op with him. "I almost did once," Fairbanks admitted. "When FDR was President. I was really tempted. But it costs too much." So he does practically the same Job in an un-portfolio-lsh sort of way and winds up spending almost as much as the ambassadors do.

All This. Fairbanks just tot home from a They never make a point of their iong-standing friendship. But they aren't self-conscious about it team this would be merely an ex moon." cerpt from a forthcoming script. either. But in the case of Amos 'n' Andy, They've been married almost 10 years, but there's always been a war or a movie or another baby to where Godsen was a patient at the ringside of the Dempsey-Kingfish Levinsky fight a blessed event is news of the first "You have to work at it," Correll order to some 30,000,000 people explained.

They have missed only four who listen Sunday evenings to a programs two while making I bJbbIk rm 1 program so far unmatched in duration of its popularity 20 "Check and Double Check" in 1930 (their only screen appear "It's more confining than marriage," added Gosden. "A man and wife can have separate fields of activity. We can't. "You get mad sometimes, but you don't show it You get mgd at the characters, even." They seldom worry. keep em from going away to-gether.

"I was going to ping my new picture. 'The Fighting OTlynns', a bit along the way, too," Fairbanks grinned. "Then everybody heard about the trip and said, as lOng aa I was going to be over there anyway, would I mind doing- this and that ance except in "The Big Broadcast of again when a gen years. Equally significant in broadcasting circles was news of the show's switch from NBC to CBS last October. This deal made radio history and made two of the wealthiest performers on the eral S.O.S silenced all radio stations and once when they were snowbound in Maryland.

'5 js3B jaMt 4 a -i "We haven't the slightest notion what we'll cook up Tuesday for air even wealthier. They sold to CBS all rights and titles, for a re the following Sundays show," said Correll. "We never store up twists for the future. And on Sat Correll and his wife, the former Alyce McLaughlin, have five children, ranging in age from eight months to eight years. They live in a showplace designed by the noted Negro architect Paul Williams.

four-months tour of Europe. He spoke at peace meetings from London to Pans to Rome as na urday we're liable to do the whole script over. The years haven't been wholly tional vice-chairman of the American Association for the United Nations. He did some investigating for his job as one of the board of free of script problems, however ported $2,500,000. However, money alone, they told me, waa not their sole consideration in selling the show.

"We won't be around forever," said Gosden, "and we want to perpetuate Amos 'n' Andy as long as CBS exists or as Ions; as the public wants the program." "Then, too." added Correll, Goshen and Correll wince when and first thing I knew I was swamped." But he got more done as a movie star than a lot pi diplomats do with their ribbons. Even the Communists cheered him in Bologna, Italy. "I was a freak personality," Fairbanks said. "If I'd been on official business I never could have; gotten down to the people. So, I think I'll keep on acting for a living and 'diplomat-ing' for a hobby." As long as he can afford it, that is.

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His wife is the former Jane Stone-ham, and he has two children, 20 and 18. In 1940 he was divorced from Mrs. Leta S. Gosden, who died later. packages Americans send to Eu fair a dream-r-and they aren't proud of the device.

"We knw it rope. He's national chairman of CARE, also. He talked to the Pope, King was a cheap thing to do, they confess now. Gosden, when discussing Amos offstage, often assumes Amos' ac "television is coming, and that's expensive." When it comes (and the date is indefinite) each character will be played by a separate actor, but Gosden and Correll will dub in those voices with which they have always been associated. This means the show will be televised from film.

Two Decades. AmOs 'n' Andy have been household words for two decades largely because Gosden and Cor New Menuhin Film Offers Music for Music's Sake ONCE A PERT LITTLE BLONDE regarded lightly in the movies, Jane Wyman did on about-face couple of year ago and has. boon climbing in film importance since. She almost won an Oscar for her heavy role in "The She may win one next spring for her pathetic characterization in "Johnny But Jane hasn't forgotten glamor entirely as this photo it calculated to prove. Gene Autry Troupe To Be In Cedar Rapids Jan.

28 they have to be actors as much as musicians, and music is subor VTEW YORK (AP) Violinist dinated to the plot Cass County Boys, the Pinafores i mm rnrn feminine trio and such. This is Autry's second cross country tour, his first appearance Reviews of the New Records Yohudl Menuhin, who for years has taken motion pictures as a hobby, has gone into the film business in earnest, and his first production, like the others he' has scheduled, carefully avoids being, he puts it, "a fantastic, stu- in Cedar Rapids. rell actually live, mentally, the lives of their characters. Louise Sum ma, their secretary for 16 years, thinks the relationship goes even deeper. "To Gosden and Correll," she said, "Amos, Andy, the Kingfish, Madam Queen and Sapphire aren't characters at all.

They're living people." Mail orders are being filled at the coliseum. Pure music, not fussed up with costume, scenery and love story, and not accompanied by remarks about its meaning or any moral at all, in other words just plain music as it reaches audiences in the world's big concert halls, is the subject of the first film. Since it had' to have a title, waa called "Concert It plays for 75 minutes, with Antal Doratl conducting the Hollywood Symphony, Menuhin at the violin, Jakob impel at catti, violinist. Columbia 17M reveal individual facets of the composer's genius. This sonata, I believe, is a more complete sum D.

rhas been many many years since the beloved Kreisler mation of the man's art of musical Here's Hoping Film It Worthy of Them HOLLYWOOD (AP) For tho first time in Academy Award times, two current-year Oscar winners are cast in the same picture. They are Loretta Young and Celeste Holm, in "Come to the filming at Twentieth Century-Fox. Miss Young was named best actress of 1947 and Gosden and Correll created tne blackface pair (first known as Sam 'n Henry) in 1928 on Chicago's WMAQ. Amos 'n' Andy became an NBC show in 1929. And an immediate national hit.

Theirs was the first nightly continuity broadcast So great was their drawing power that thieves admitted the broadeast period was the best time for burglary. Theater managers complained of empty seats while they were on the air. Pool halls, restaurants, drug stores installed loud speakers first performed these pieces for the public and, I during his long reign as king of the fiddle-players, there were few of his recitals which did not include one or the other of them as an encore. Now that the old master emerges less and less frequently from his seclusion, his music goes on delighting concert-goers and music-lovers but by the hands of younger performers. Kreisler individual style of playing will nevr be successfully imitated but Francescatti in this record puts us in a reminiscent mood with the rhythmic plaintive-ness of "Love's Sorrow" and the exuberance of "Love's expression than any other of his compositions.

In addition to the typical Lisztiah bravura the sonata has drama, romance, tenderness and a rhapsodic quality which is intense and moving. Sandor, a Hungarian by birth, specializes in the performance of Liszt's works and is well suited, temperamentally, to that task. In this recording he gives a warm, poetic and technically brilliant performance of one of the most important compositions in literature for the piano. a a a "Liebesleld" and Kreisler; Zino Francea- the piano and Eusa Beal singing. Bach, 8araaate are among the names on the first program, and a second is almost ready for distribution.

The camera and sound track give just what you would see and hear from the best seats in the concert hall; occasionally, however, there is a close-up to show the performer's fingers on violin or piano. Menuhin and Producer Paul Gordon of Concert Films planned the venture, and th first nmonm Miss Holm best supporting actress of 1947. Both awards were made last March. 3 "'HlaaB. By Joseph H.

Kitchin. i "Music from 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' Mendelssohn; Arturo Toscanlni conducting the NBC Symphony orchestra. Four lt-inch records; Victor MDM-1S80. ALTHOUGH many a composer has found the inspiration for some of his musical writings in the plays of Shakespeare, it is doubtful whether any one of them has so accurately caught and reflected the spirit of tho bard as has Mendelssohn in this immortal music to "A Midsummer Night's A favorite pastime of the Mendelssohn children and their companions was the acting out of plays by Shakespeare and other dramatists. One of their favorites was the "Midsummer Night's Small wonder, then, that Felix, already a mature musician and composer at the age of 17, should write an overture in which most of the characters of the fairy-drama are depicted.

What is remarkable is that when the king of Prussia, 17 years later, requested Mendelssohn to write some incidental music for a production of "Midsummer Night's the composer was able to incorporate his youthful overture, unchanged, into a set of to bolster their patronage. George Bernard Shaw once LUCK LUND. John Lund never Sought a stage or screen role in his life. They were always offered to him first. was made a year ago.

It has been Privacy? No, Indeed, When Baby Is Born for a Movie GENE AUTRY with Champion Gene Autry, singing cowboy favorite, will bring his variety show to Memorial coliseum Fri usea witn great success, it is said, at Iceland Stanford university, and has been released in South Africa. The promoters estimate there are several hundred neighborhood and "art" theaters in this country with a clientele that would like such a program, and the National Concerts Association is interested. Menuhin does not expect any runaway business, but he believes there is a sizable audience for music as music, particularly in smaller cities and tflurm which said: "Three things. Ill never forget about America are the Rocky Mountains, Niagara Falls and Amos 'n' Andy." Ten years ago the show moved to Hollywood. And, in 1943, after 4,090 successive 15-minute broadcasts, the program was converted to a half-hour format.

The cast was expanded and musical sequences were added. Amos gradually became a staid, levelheaded family appearing far less frequently. "It was a natural development," Gosden says now. "Amos is so good these days that we have trouble writing him into the script" hire three sets of twins ranging in age from two to four weeks. day, Jan.

28. The troupe Mid-Winter FOOD FAVORITES HICKORY- SMOKED BAR-Q RIBS Sauce on Side THICK, TENDER STEAKS Chops Fish Chicken PRIVATE CLUBROOM By RESERVATION nie six babies 1 were nut on the Paramount payroll because Cali two performances a children's show at 4 and another performance at 8:30. To the followers of western movies, Autry no description. Nor does his horse, Cham big name artists and large orches- pieces so uniform in style that pion YEHUDI MENUHIN 'pendous, enormous, prodigious, colossal Hollywood project." "Hollywood has not provided so far any outlet" for straight music, he says. When, singers or players are called to the studios, their work is only part of the film story; They've been in movie after Amos and Ruby Taylor Jones the lapse of years and the development of the composer are concealed.

Of the IS numbers of the set, Toscanini presents six in this al iras ao noi visit. He sees it as a completely now field, offering no competition to radio, films or concert managements." And he finds the sound reproduction "excellent." 1 DRIVE IN have two children. The approach I movie set on the frontier. Autry is of their third child will be an- also heard on network radio OH me BOULEVARD 1 nounced on the lr in February. weekly.

fornia law says Iprty can "work" in front of a camera only 20 minutes a day iand only 30 seconds at a time. To make sure there are no violations, a sharp-eyed welfare worker always stands? by, armed with a stop-watch, to keep track of the fleeting seconds. By using identical children, one can be substituted for the other in case time runs short or one kid starts bawling or another suddenly needs a change- of clothes smack in the center of an important scene. So along with the kiddies came their mothers. And along with the mamas came a nurse for each MARION Assisting Gene in the Cedar Rapids engagement wilh be; his Melody Ranch companions of both the screen and air: Rufe Davis, Pat Buttram.

Johnny Bond, the Returning by Popular Heauent! bum. The remaining numbers consist, largely, of music to accompany action on the stage and -are not suitable for separate performance. The album contains the Overture, Intermezzo, Scherzo, Nocturne, Wedding March and Finale all of thorn familiar and each a perfect gem of its kind. Toscanini and the NBC Sym By Frank Neilll HOLLYWOOD (INS) Having a baby usually is a simple procedure. Mama goes to the doctor.

The doctor supervises her progress. And then, at the proper time, mama hies to a hospital to await a visit from the stork. But it isn't that simple in Hollywood. Nothing is simple lin Hollywood, which invariably makes a special point of going out of its way to make things snafu. For instance, Lizabeth Scott has a baby in "Bitter a sentimental tear-jerker Hal Wallis is concocting for paramount.

Now you would think that maybe a second a Mstant director would make arrangements with a hospital to furnish a newborn tot for the scene. And the studio could easily supply a nurse. Brother, that not only would be much too simple, it also would be illegal. You'd have suspicions that some California laws were written by infants, the way the statutes protect kids. Help! In order for Miss Scott who is hitched to Bob Cummingp in the flicker to have her one child, it was necessary for the studio to Opposite Armar "The AMERICAN MALE CHORUS The Cast Gosden still speaks the parts of Amos, Kingfish and Lightnin' Correll enacts Andy and Henry Van Porter.

Ruby and Brother Crawford haven't figured in the scripts for about a year, but Gosden and Correll never close Memorial Celistum Jan. 12 IMS P.M. ECONOMIZE "49 the door comnletelv on a ehar- child. And the studio prOVlded jmhU r.rMr.. i.

Stonouroll phony give the music a rendition which, for clarity and deftness of iv limou.ina- with iv rh.irfta. uic owucw rl :717 tne lawyer. Ernestine wade is "Imp eccable diction, excel -lent tone quality re- execution, is about as near to per A SUNDAY TREAT one to a car, ot course to pilot Sapphire, wife of Kingfish. And "8 1 ing as they fought, with heart and soul going Into their music." Pittsburgh Wonderful Smith plays various roles as needed. What are they like personally.

1 venting ehor-r al singing Is noi a lost art Gosden and Correll? Knowing COMPLETE SUNDAY DINNER SOUP to NUTS served 12 to 2:30 4 to 8 p.m. 85 fection as mortal musicians may hope to attain. a "Sonata In Llsst; Gjrorgy Sandor, pianist. Throe 12-inch records; Columbia MM-786. "pHE shorter piano pieces of A Liszt and, to a certain extent, the concertos and orchestral works fc Saa Francieeo their royal highnesses to the studio and back home again.

And More, Each baby who; works in movies must also be driven to the board of education for a physical exam the day before appearing on the sound stage and bock again the day after each "work" day. And then Hhere is the minor News tnem explains in part tne public sustained adulation of Amos 'n' Andy. Gosden is 49 and Correll 58. If Gosden is the spokesman on oc Directed by LEWIS BULLOCK casion, he never makes a major GOOD SEATS AVAILABLE ROSS STEAK HOUSE Third A venae Third Street SB si fifyflPift'ct! I far tlalat men waa i mi IWWIllllM. DELICIOUSLY DIFFERENT matter of technical advisers.

For this particular scene Miss Kathleen Kelley, bosswoman of maternity nurses at Hollywood Presbyterian hospital, served in official capacity. Four doctors also were present, to okay equipment and the script so that the cinematic obstetrician, Ray Collins, would have a perfect delivery room manner. Miss Scott summed the whole thing up somewhat succinctly on the set while dozens of mothers, nurses, doctors, proud relatives, chauffeurs and an army of technicians crowded around. "Heck," snorted Liz, "I ain't got no privacy!" 5 rjj decision without consulting Correll. Both are vast reservoirs of fresh story material; they never repeat a script on their regular show, they never resurrect an idea once discarded.

They are highly Individual mentally, yet once train of thought has boon started their minds mesh like pair of gears. Each knows every facet of the other's personality. Both are tireless. Their own explanation of the show's eon-tinning appeal year after year was spoken almost In unison "hard, work." Five days a week, from 9:30 IS THE mttttm9 WHEN YOU CHOOSE CANDY Choose ff Wsey Get Atmosphere of Now DRAGON RESTAURANT PI BJBjBBV.fcv mMbbbbbmMeAi'B1 IEbV fIIS! VALENTINE'S DAY FEB. 14 50 Fried Spring CHICKEN on Tooit 1 Choice Young Spring Chicken Cooked to Your Order Ia bv Amm la mm A 'tf aMMBBBBJ BL Wouldn't vour Child's Portrait VOU ABE LOOKING FOR EVERY BOX YOU BUY HERE IS GUARANTEED FRESH That's because in our Whitman's Refrigerated Candy Department every box of these delicious confections keeps its richness and as tines the way you want them the way you expect them from Whitman's.

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