The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-06-13
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BY ERsKINE JOHNSON NEA Staff Correspondent

You know the Radio Rogues? Those gents who grab microphone and impersonate everyone from Eleanor Roosevelt to Mickey Mousep They have been working together in night clubs, on screen, stage and radio for the last IT years. They're one of the most successful teams in show business.
 It took war to break up the act. After IT years the Radio Rogues are folding up, with Eddie Bartell checking into the Army in few weeks. It was dapper Eddie and Jimmy Hollywood who started the act back in 1927, introducing rapid fire mimicry which was destined to earn them fortune.
 There were always three Radio Rogues but Eddie and Jimmy were the stars. The third Rogue was the straight man and during their long association Eddie and Jimmy wore out' eight different straight men.
 The boys figure they have done close to 8 thousand different i'm pressions of theatrical and radio stars and national figures. And no one ever complained - except once. That was in New York be- fore the war when they were do- ing the voices of Hitler and hia stooges in a prolong for the Olsen and Johnson show, "Hellzapoppin. ["
 Some Nazs discovered they were the voices and one day when Eddie and Jimmy left the theater couple of burly gents took swing at them. But missed.
 TWO HAVE LASTED IF YEARS
 Only two impersonations surviv- ed those IT years, were continuous parts of the act One was Kate Smith, the other Amos n Andy. Jimmy Durante," Eddie said, has been in and out so many times we lost track"
 Oddly enough Jimmy and Eddie were actors in dramatic tear jerk CTS like "The Last Mile," with dashes of Shakespeare, before they introduced rapid fire mimicry to the nation. At the height of the gang ster era in Chicago, they were play ing in '"The Last Mile' in South Side theater.
 That's when we quit" Jimmy said. Why, little kids in the front row were tougher than any of the actors playing killers on the stage"
 Speaking of gangsters, Jimmy and Eddie will never forget the time they were playing in New York night club "Just as we were leaving the building one night" Jimmy said. "a couple of George Raft-like characters walked up to us, stuck a gun in our ribs and said, Boys, you're going to do benefit tonight
 LIKE ON A ONE-WAY RIDE
 "The gun," Eddie said, made us very agreeable. The two guys push ed us into car and drove us to an apartment house. We went up private elevator to penthouse. They showed us into a room where a dapper little gent was working a crossword puzzle. He didn't even look up. Just kept working on that puzzle No one said word. After about five minutes, he stood up and without saying anything else, said, Let's go.'
 Eddie and Jimmy went down the elevator - no one saying anything and got into another car. we drove up to Westchester, Jimmy said, where we did our act for some kind of political rally. No one said a single word during the entire trip. We were shaking so we could hardly stay on the seat.
 Well. when we left the stage the gent who had been working that crossword puzzle stuck something in my hand. When they drove off, looked.
 T was holding three crumpled 5000 bills. They were wet with per- spiration."