Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1930-03-21 | Page 4 | Amos 'N' Andy

Amos 'N' Andy Gosden and Correl, known to radio ra-dio fans as Amos 'n' Andy, recently were received by President Hoover. But no racial question was raised, as was the case when Mrs. DePriest, wife of the- Negro Congressman, at tended a White House tea. Although Freeman Gosden and. Charles J. Correll have the Negro dialect down so pat that thousands of their listeners think they are colored men, they are not. They are both white, the former a Virginian Vir-ginian and the latter a native of Illinois. In their radio broadcasts only these two are present in the studio. Gosden, 31, takes his star role as Amos, and also those of the King Fish, Lightning and others by suitably suit-ably changing his voice. Correl, 40, is the deep-voiced Andy. Beginning as radio amateurs in 1925, after several years of theatrical theat-rical experiences, these two comedians comed-ians have risen to be the highest paid entertainers on the air. Millions Mil-lions of listeners follow the varying vary-ing fortunes of Amos, Andy, the King Fish, Madam Queen, Ruby Taylor and the rest with keen interest. in-terest. In fact, it Is suspected that their doings are of more popular interest than the antics of some of the star performers in the United States Senate.