Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-20
RE Amos and Anoy coming
1 to Washington soon on a

- This question has been
raised following a personal letter
received from Correl and GoSden
themselves by no less a parsonage
than Maj. w. o. Woods, Treasurer
of the United States, whose name
appears on all the new paper
money.
Maj. Woods, like thousands of
other Amos and Andy fans here,
is enthusiastic about the trials
and tribulations of the Fresh Air
Taxicab Co. Incorpulated,' and
the many scrapes in which Amos
and Andy find themselves in
volved. One of the features of
pealing to the Treasurer of the
United States was their mispro-
nunciation of words. He wrote to
Amos and Andy in Chicago, Sug-
costing that they might use mis-
takes common in some parts of
the country-"diSrem and
"disencourage."
To his surprise, when listening
in a few nights thereafter, he
heard the boys ring in the word
"disremember." And then came a
letter from the radio comics
themselves. 1t was written on
the simplest of stationery, with
out even the name of the city. In
the left upper corner was the
name Freeman F. GoSden, who
is Amos, and in the right upper
corner the name of Charles j
Correll, who takes the role of
Andy. In bold but neatly engraved
black letters across the top of the
page was inscribed those famous
words Amos and Andy" Then
came the date. The city and
State were omitted.
Your two suggestions are very
good, indeed" wrote the boys
land we have already incorpo-
rated the word 'disremembered' in
one Of our episodes, which will be
broadcast within the next day OF
two, possibly before this letter
reaches you.
1--WE both hope to have the
pleasure Of seeing you soon and
with kindest regards, we are sin
cerely." 1t was signed "Correll &
GoSden," the names which the
boys have used since they began
radio work as a harmony team
and later as Sam and Henry"
What did they mean by seeing
you SOON? Maj. Woods doesn't
know. Maybe they are coming to
town.
PROBLEMS of microphone tech
nique have replaced back
scratching in the monkey house
and King Lion of New York's mu-
nicipal menagerie is sounding his
lowest register while thoughts of
his public" ruffie the base of his
name. The denizenS of the Bronx
Zoo are preparing for their radio
debut morrow afternoon,
April 81.
The seals, tigers, elephants and
their colleagues will meet the ra-
dio audience under the auspices OF
THE Lady Next Door," whose
daily programs over WRC are IA
miliar to young and old alike.
The broadcast by the animals
will be heard direct from then
cages from $3.50 to 4 o'clock. II
all started when Miss Madge
Tucker, "the lady next door," and
the cast of youngsters who play
in her program each day decided
to have a Zoo party.
When Miss Tucker and her
playmates expressed regret at
having to leave their radio friends
behind, William Burke Miller, who
has charge of special broadcasts
for the N. B. c., called his friends
of the technical staff to the res
cue. Satisfactory tests were made
at the ZOO with the N. B. c. por-
table transmitting equipment, and
the broadcast was scheduled.
.Informality is to be the key
note of the party; there won't
even be an announcer along to
give the animals mike fright.
THE Lady Next Door" and her
party will be met by DR.. Claude
w. Lester, curator of educational
activities and assistant to the di-
rector of the Zoo, just outside the
bird house. Then, with the re-
marks of the children and the
cries of the animals supplying the
whole substance of the program,
the tour will be made. The itin-
erary calls for trips through the
bird house, around the seal foun-
tain, through the monkey house,
past the lions, tigers, pumas, Loop
ards and chimpanZees; through
the elephant and rhinoceros
houses and then to the cages
housing the wolves, coyotes, foxes
and Eskimo dogs.
The N. B. G.. mobile transmit
ter, a truck equipped with special
Short-wave apparatus, will follow
the party at a distance Of 100 feet,
circling down the walks and paths
of the Zoo.
COLOR blindness is not uncom-
mon, but it is generally known
that many persons are tone deaf.
Many people go through life with
this faulty condition of hearing,
although not aware of it, and
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