.Page 4 THE TAR HEEL Thursday, August 13, 1964 lft Star Wpd Where Did Amos & Andy Go? By HENRY McINNIS America survived in the form of trap and watching him try to get JOEL BULKLEY LINDA RIGGS this show. There wasn't a trick out of it made this episode the Whatever happened to that hil- I the Kingfish missed in trying to cause for a severe stomach ache Editor Business Manager ariously lovable old radio and TV earn a dishonest dollar, but the (uncontrollable laughter). What program, "Amos and Andy"? Managing Wallace situations he got into were gen- fun! What mirth! Editor Jim Well, the NAACP unleased its uinely funny and in many cases, Andy" spon- News Editors Pete Ilarkness and Jim Neal legal forces on the program and "Amos and has the unpredictable, something that can- light-hearte- d Saff Writers Alan Banov, Frank Freeze, Marilyn Lang brought an end to the making taneity and humor not be said for most other tele- conspiciously missing of new ones. Anyone who looks at that is so in 933-116- 3 vision programs. Office Telephone the "boob tube" in the late after- today's situation comedies. One Sapphire's mother, "Mama," reason for its extreme populari- ' School noon and evenings will soon see The TAR HEEL is the official publication of the Summer feeling iden- the reasons for the show's dem- played by the mustached actress, ty was the warm of Publications Board of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. gave Negro peo- ise. Negroes 1950's finally Amanda Randolph, was the most tification it the Company. in the is published every Thursday by the Chapel Hill Publishing mother-in-la- w they found them- It rebelled at the stereotype charact- outrageous in eith- ple, not because Heel the opinions of the editors, living cliches, All editorials appearing in the Tar are ers who abound in the show, and er Caucasian or Negroid history. selves to be far unless otherwise credited; ithey do not necessarily represent the opinion particularly objected to the With her mile-hig- h hats filled from it. The characters were well-develop- of the other members of the staff. "Kingfish," played on TV by Tim with all kinds of fruits, (a la Car- roundly human, ed always convinc- Moore and previously on radio by men Miranda), she could melt an dramatically, and acting way Charles Correll. iceberg when she looked out at ing. Also, the was Yes, Kingfish was exactly what the audience after trapping the above the ordinary level for TV. always in- the Southern white racist always Kingfish in another shenanigan. The direction was presence of said the Negro was, shiftless, In one memorable episode, the telligent and the Loans style was al- Student best, goes form, caution and lazy, scheming and lovable. I think, Andy to the light-color- ed universally hu- His wife Sapphire, (even the United Nations and meets a ways strong. The . came out of The cost of college education continues to increase. name was a cliche and an insult secretary who is inexplic-- man element each Kingfish roll public and pri to the Negro protest leaders) as ably French. He makes a date with performer. Watch The U. S. Office of Education surveyed eyes when played on TV by Ernestine Wade, her, though neither can under- those mischievous he colleges for the school year ending on and universities long-sufferin- lan- underhanded deal vate was the typical Negro wife, g, stand a word of the other's plants an Andy. in June. It showed the cost of tuition, fees, and board the real family bread- guage. On the date, in walks a poor old, unsuspecting of Amos and winner and a potential Aunt Je- hefty tub of bedazzing wit in the The minor roles and room for the year as follows: counter- mima. It hardly helped matters form of Ruby Dandridge, who Calhoun were significant attending private colleges and Kingfish. Brock Pet- Male undergraduates that the Kingfish's best friend was plays the girl's mother, on the parts to the went to fame in "To universities paid $2,399 or 5.1 per cent more than in Amos, as dumb a piece of hu- prowl for a good mate for her ers, who on daughter and herself. Kill a Mockingbird," "Carmen 4.5 manity as could be imagined by 1963; women paid $1,425 a increase. and "The L Shaped even the most shiftless script- Miss Dandrige is noted for two Jones" out- Room," appeared often in differ- Male undergraduates attending public institutions writer. things in show business: she's ent roles and his performances side their own states paid $1,084. nearly a 1 per cent in- Well, the truth is that while Dorothy Dandridge's mother, per- were always polished and amus- the NAACP is right to object to haps the most talented Negro crease; women were charged $1,094, an increase of only ing. the cardboard characterizations family in America, and she was to $6. perpetuated in "Amos and Andy," Beulah on the old "Beulah" show. Yes, it was a big mistake creating "Amos and Andy" Male in public institutions in their own they did exactly as most well-in- - Andy finds himself in the moth- stop students is an indication that near-sighte- d people er's amorous clutches until Ruby comedies. It state paid $790, an increase of 4.2 per cent; women paid tentioned but do. They didn't seem to realize catches sigh of Kingfish, who she the Negro movement has been $784, an increase of about 4 per cent. the enormously inventive writing thinks is even cuter. Oui, oui, ooh overacting in the name of its hope they wake up In addition, the Office of Education estimated that went into the program, most- la la, coos Dandridge and this is cause. Let's that use more sophisticated rea- " ly effort of Gene Fowler, a surely the classic anachronism of and clothing, expenses the costs of transportation and other ran Wilmington native. TV history. The Kingfish is at soning before they defeat their between $500 and $1,000. Some of the best vaudeville in last on the other side of the own march for dignity. These are the statistics that produce suggestions for two years free post-hig- h school education and bills in Congress and state legislatures that would provide tax Was Bad credits for parents of children attending college or give Birmingham: Food other federal aid. By ART BUCHWALD I ordered the roast lamb. My wife civil rights bill was passed, the mila-nais- e. white long-ter- m had the escalope de veau restaurant served only One of the better answers is the loan In The Herald Tribune We both ordered Caesar wine. gram, private and public, that does not demand repay- The civil rights bill has been salad. I know you won't believe "This put a pall on the din- ment until the graduate has been out of school for a a landmark in American history. this, but they left the croutons ner." ' specified length of time (similar, we believe, to the UNC Unfortunately, although it pro- out of the salad." "How was dessert?" vides that there should be no "And what about the lamb?" "The cheeses weren't very in- program). discrimination in restaurants and "A little too well done for my teresting and the choice of des- appalling. to Interest rates are low and the rate of student repay- -' hotels based on color, no pro- taste, and while I hate to be serts was I had vision was put in the bill to critical, I found them too spar- use all my influence to have So feeling accomplish- ment is high. is the of pride in guarantee the quality of the food. ing with the garlic. My biggest them make me a baked Alaska. ment. This was probably a mistake. disappointment though came It was a disaster." when to see "What did you do?" The other day we interviewed I asked the wine a Negro from Birmingham, Ala., card. I was informed they did- "I told the manager that, if a who had been served in one of n't have wine card and the he wanted our people's patronage waiter the leading hotels there for the offered us a red burgundy in the future, he would have to Disappointed which knew was too young, improve quality of first time and he told us he was I the the food." quite disappointed. inferior, and would never "What did he say?" show its promise. I expressed dis- "He thanked me for my criti- We were a bit disappointed after tabulating the re- my he said, "I had "All life," satisfaction and the waiter said cisms and said that from now under the impression that turns of our Presidential Preference Questionnaire last been it wasn't his fault. Up until the on they would try harder." ' week to Bronstein didn't receive any the food in this hotel was great. find that Yetta Why else wouldn't they let us votes. eat there? So as soon as the Surely, students are aware Mrs. Bronstein is civil rights bill was passed, I that said to my wife, 'Mother, let's, Letter To The Editor running for President of the United States as an go down to the hotel and have Editor, The Tar Heel: kept one foot on the seat of the pendent write-i-n candidate. a fine gourmet dinner.' chair to his right, his knee up "She was delighted because I saw in the newspaper today According to a leaflet we received last summer when "above the table, and the other she never gets out much. where judge a in a nearby town foot on the rung of the same she announced her candidacy "her platform includes: "Well, we went to the hotel found a youth not chair. He read the newspaper, lowering the voting age to 18, better government, fluoridati- and asked for the dining room. guilty in a trial, but made him : picked his nose, pullfed on his I thought it would be something stay lYz hours in jail because on,-national bingo, sex education, and stronger gov- special since they kept us out mouth, and ignored his lady he was in court with his shirt-ta- il so long, but turned out companion. ernment." of it it out. I wish we had a judge tc be an ordinary hotel dining It seems to me the Univer-- Ah well, we'll wait till 1968. in Lenoir Hall yesterday when a - room with bad lighting, rickety sity dining hall could have some ; student, barefooted and wear- chairs, and very cheap ashtrays. minimum standards of conduct ing shorts, laid his hairy leg "They didn't give us much in the dining room, and students across the top of his while trouble when we asked for a table told to conform to these stan- he did some figuring. table, although the manager, out dards, or eat elsewhere. Evi- Movie inquired who recom- I didn't say anything to him, A Guide of curiosity, dently,- someone is doing a mended the restaurant to us. I but I said, in a voice that he pretty inadequate job of screen- 88th of We discovered an important pamphlet the other day, told him the Congress could hear, , to a girl sitting ing applicants, else how could the United States and he seemed alone at a table next to his and one publishers intended to strike into our these students get in the Univer- that the fear satisfied." also across from my table, sity. . "How did you find the ser- hearts. "Where does he think he is! Is Students who don't have the vice?!' we asked him. . that the way he behaves at slightest conception of basic It is the revised 1964 "Red Stars Tract" published by "Very indifferent. I was par- home?" He kept his leg on the good great ticularly disappointed by the dry manners, or how to conduct the Cinema Educational Guild. The Guild went to table awhile longer, then prop- martinis. We like our martinis themselves in public, should be lengths to list all "commies" who are back in Holly- ped both feet on the rungs of ad- the very dry. When the drinks ar- told that even if they were his chair. I believe this tops all wood, and it seems that the only criteria for selection rived, we were distressed to dis- mitted and passed their courses, the bad manners which have cover a four-to-o- ratio between I the University would not recom- was talent. observed at Lenoir. gin and vermouth, I should think : mend them for any kind of job, We're not upset and we doubt if the stars are upset, it wouldn't be difficult to make I almost had my lunch spoiled for no business would want them but we think the Guild should be they printed the a good martini in Birmingham." , again today,. when I sat. near a around, they are personally un- "What about the food?" on in red ink. Wow! student who had a sweat acceptable. Tract "I'm quite a lamb fancier, so shirt, shorts, and loafers. He Otelia Conner