Hollywood Gossip – 08-20-1934

August 20, 1934

Freeman Gosden (Amos) sends us a postcard from Ketchikan, Alaska:  “Hi, Darrell.  This is a great country, great fishing and great hunting.”

Which reminds us, Amos and Andy will talk by short wave Wednesday night at 7 o’clock, Pittsburgh time, from their respective vacation haunts in San Francisco and London—6,000 miles apart—and NBC will eavesdrop for listeners on the blue network (KDKA).

Don Shoup and his wife will return to Chicago with “Genial Jan” Garber on September first . . .

Ben Gage of Evanston, Ill., has been chosen to take Bob Crosby’s place in Anson Week’s Orchestra . . .

Watch for Bob Crosby’s association with the Dorsey Brothers . . . They’ll have a Cab Calloway style, only a bit slower tempo . . .

Johnny Hamp and his Kentucky Serenaders will replace Earl Burtnett on WGN this Friday . . .

Mae West and the Voice of Experience both celebrated their birthday last Friday!

The Byrd Expedition will salute the return of the Sun this Wednesday on CBS . . .

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Old-Time Radio Memories, by Mel Simons – Paperback

The Great American Broadcast: A Celebration of Radio’s Golden Age, by Leonard Maltin – Hardcover

The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946-Present – Paperback

 

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Amos and Andy Sued by Miller and Lyles (1930)

AMOS AND ANDY SUED BY MILLER AND LYLES

Negro Comedians Say They
Coined Expressions
“Regusted” and “Sho-Sho”

SEEK INJUNCTION

Claim Words were “Patented” and are Their Property

NEW YORK—Following close upon the discovery that the “Miller and Lyles” team, playing in “Shuffle Along of 1930” at Werba’s Flatbush Theatre, two weeks ago, were not the original comedians by that name, comes the news that the original Miller and Lyles team has instituted proceedings against the National Broadcasting Company and Amos and Andy, comedians who broadcast over that chain’s network.

It is understood that the suit is filed for the illegal use of words “patented and the property of Miller and Lyles” now used in the broadcasting of the popular team of “Amos and Andy.”  Mr. Cohen has asked for an injunction restraining the white comedians from using the material unless they pay a large sum to the owners of the copyrighted material.

Other rumors have it that this matter, which makes Amos and Andy the most popular radio team of today, was written for another colored team and by a colored writer, who is now enjoying a comfortable income as a result.  Press releases on “Amos and Andy” state that the material they use is original with them.

It was Walter Winchell of the “Mirror” who first called attention to the fact that Amos and Andy were using material formerly used by Miller and Lyles.  As a result, a general flurry in the theatrical world followed.

May 10, 1930 – the Afro American

Click here to listen to a 1930 broadcast of Amos ‘n’ Andy.  (April 4, 1930: “Ise Regusted”)

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