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AMOS 'N' ANDY
A gaily informative account of how this famous couple became an institution, and of what that institution will do in Hollywood
Here we have the hard-working Amos — the gay who saves his money, or at least, tries to, when Andy is not around.
We don't need to tell you what this vehicle is. It's as famous as the Spirit of St. Louis and the Graf Zeppelin rolled into one.
YOU hear about it everywhere — You read about it here and there — ButJust what is this thing called "Amos 'n' Andy"? It leaps at you from the news and editorial columns of your newspaper.
It slips eeriely through the ether and enters your home, even though doors be barred and windows shuttered.
Yet, seein' is believin' ! And who's seen Amos 'n' Andy? The answer, as Bert Williams used to say, is "Nobody."
Mebbe there ain't no sich animal as Amos 'n' Andy. Mebbe it's a myth. Like Lydia Pinkham and Lffe, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, and, of ' course, prohibition.
IS AH Blue . . . Madam Queen . . . Ah's regusted . . . Kingfisher . . . Fresh Air Taxicab Company, Incorpolated . . . Ruby Taylah . . . propolition . . . awah, awah, awah! That's no proof. Neither is the allegation that the business of the telephone companies falls off during an Amos 'n' Andy broadcast. Nor the one that 25,000 letters, 5,000 telegrams and 1,000 long distance telephone protests danced daily attendance when the Amos 'n' Andy hour on the air was shifted. Nor that A 'n' A tied Lindbergh in a collegiate popularity vote.
There's no evidence of a corpus delicti just because Mr. and Mrs. John W. Elwood, of the National Broadcasting Company, vehemently deny printed statements that Amos 'n' Andy figured in their divorce. Nor because lesser perso lage.
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