The Washington times., 1930-02-07
GLEANINGS.
SCREENINGS
by ANDREW r. KELLEY

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the week of March 8 is still in
negotiation. The matter to be
adjusted is the Correll and
Gosden salary, since the price
for the services of the black
faced comics is going up by
leaps and bounds.
Reduced to the vernacular of
their nightly frivols over the
air the "sitcheration" is some
thing like this: The scene is
somewhere in New York:
AtnoS-Waita minute, waita
minute, Andy. Yere cum a
terrargram from Washington.
Andy-Lemme see that ter
rargratn, Amos. You can't read
dem big words. (Amos passes
1t over. Andy readsO Um. Um.
It say here will you play
Washington Auditorium, week
OF March 3. Salary $4,000 net,
four shows a day. Scratches
his head) Use requested.
Amos-Well I'll be doggone.
All agrees wild you dere, Andy.
$4,000 amt no money for us.
No. sir. It look jes like dey
figure, we's a cheap act. I
amt a gonna do it.
Andy-Chec and bubble
check. Amos you jes, get out
yer pencil and take this terra
gram. Use gonna tell dem
pepul somethin'. Yassir. DaS
sactly what ahm gonna do.
dictates to Amos.) De N.BC.
company which handle our af-
fairs tell us we amt never play
Washington and dat de .pepul
dere is jeS crazy to see us. Our
pay for de week will be $13, 900.
OATS what we's aSkin'-
Amos Qnterrupts)-W a t a
minute, waita minute, Andy.
You amt sed nuthin bout per-
centage.
Andy-Oh, sho, sho. Amos,
you is right. Put dis down. De
$4,000 will be guarantee with q
choice of so per cent of the
gate. Dassall. Now send that
terragram.
When these terms were re-
ceiVed at the Washington Audi
torium, the sponsors for the
Amos n Andy week went into
a new huddle. At last accounts
the negotiation over wages was
still on.
Beginning next Friday, Feb
ruary IA, the Metropolitan The
ater will inaugurate a Friday
opening policy. The picture
chosen to begin the new
schedule is the film musical,
mo, No, NaneTte.'
Elizabeth Vandenberg, daugh-
ter Of Senator Vandenberg of
Michigan. will make her sdebut
as a concert pianiste at Con-
Stitution Hall on March /,
when she will be the soloist for
the National High School Or
chestra concert, an, organiza-
tion of $50 scholastics heralded
as comprising the cream of the
youthful musicians of the coun-
try.
Wallace Munroe, advance
agent of the Victor Herbert re-
vival in Washington, will speak
over VOL at 5 p m. tomorrow
on "The Victor Herbert I
Knew" Mr.. Munroe shares a
view long held by this depart
ment that a real appreciation
for this master of melody was
not created until after his
death. Today his estate re-
ceives but small sum annually
in royalties for the use of his
music over the radio where the
Herbert melodies vie in popu-
larity with the greatest of ccm-
posers. It iSSa fact thai tie
administrator Of the Herbert
estateeSet the value of Herbert
future royalties at $4,000.
Mr.. Herbert's last appear
ance as conductor in Washing
ton was at the National Thea
ter where, he led the orchestra
for the opening night of his
musical comedy, Girl In the
Spotlight" His presence in
the pit was a tribute to Mary
Milburn. a prima donna who
traced her ancestry to his own
beloved Ireland. But few
months before he had appeared
at the Rialto Theater as guest
conductor and his movie sal
ary was a mere $1,000 a week
"a relatively small sum as
compared to what is paid for
genius by the theater of today
I commend Mr.. Munroe'S talk
as an interesting air prospect
for he enjoyed a lifetime friend
ship with the composer. On
February 18. Eleanor Painter,
the opera prima donna, who
comes to Polls with the Her.
bert revival of THE Fortune
Teller" will sing a group of
the Herbert melodies over the
same station-WOL.
Since our musings today ap-
pear to run to musical grooves
it might be appropriate to set
down that the first public con-
cert of the National Symphony
Orchestra-which is Washing.
tons own symphony-was both
an artistic and financial sue
cess.
This is something of an
achievement. for, as a rule, the
initial concert of any newly
organized symphonic group sci