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...Because our studio telephones have been cut off," shouted Senor Ramon Perez, "we have moved to the power station on Mixcoac Hill. We shall continue to broadcast without food or sleep until the Ericsson Telephone Co. pays us 13,000 pesos for three months' back pay! We represent 62 Station XEAL employes! The orchestra will now play 'Carioca...
Jokes touching any member of the Royal Family were abruptly and permanently barred by the British Broadcasting Corporation last week as postmen arrived with truckloads of protests against a quip broadcast from Leamington by Comedian Ernie Moss. Referring to the world's largest underwater tunnel, lately opened by His Majesty (TIME, July 30), shrill Mr. Moss chirped: "I was to have opened the Mersey Tunnel but the King charged a pound less, so I didn...
...York time. The country had learned to use Andy's word "regusted." The Secretary of State of Colorado and 100,000 other listeners in the West plainly stated their "regust" at the change because they could not get home in time for the broadcast. The "Amos and Andy Rebellion," which seriously threatened Pepsodent with a boycott, was only quelled when Gosden and Correll agreed to broadcast twice nightly, at 7 and 11. By the end of their first year with Pepsodent, Amos and Andy, according to Bell Telephone Co., were responsible for a $50% drop in telephone calls during...
...authors missed three broadcasts, two when they went to Hollywood to make Check and Double Check in 1930, one when a general SOS silenced all stations. In response to a public demand, the last missing installment was published in newspapers. Gosden and Correll have broadcast twice from sickbeds, once from a booth at the Chicago Stadium when they were attending a prizefight. In their annual swings around the country to make personal appearances in cinemansions, Amos and Andy take to the air from their authors' dressing room...
This week, after eight solid years of work, Amos and Andy will go off the air after their 1,892nd broadcast. Messrs. Gosden & Correll, less popular than heretofore, have fallen from first to fourth place in the last poll,* but they still get 5,000 letters a month. Last year besides their $200,000 from Pepsodent they made $100,000 from theatrical engagements. Both married before Amos and Andy were created. Gosden has become the father of two children since the first broadcast six years ago. They live in neighboring apartments in Chicago. This summer Gosden, a native of Richmond...