Indianapolis Times, Volume 42, Number 268, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1931 — Page 3

MARCH 20, 1931.

RADIO'S LATEST SONG IDOL NO 'WOMAN'S MAN' Morton Downey Skyrockets to Fame, but Bids Not for Fair Sex’s Praise. J nitcd press NEW i'OriX, March 2C.—Morton whose skyrocket rise to lame and fortune as Broadway’s favorite troubador has been one of the towns sensations in recent months, has absolutely no desire to have the women of America clamoring at his doorstep or flinging themselves hysterically into his arms. Downey said so himself, and he means it. And, furthermore, he w-ants it known, he doesn’t sing with his eyes shut. He has a perfectly good wife, he explained, in the person of Barbara Bennett, and he'll not stand for any press agent stunts designed to cast the aura of romance over his plump person. "Me!” he grunted, "me, the great lover! Imagine it! With this paunch!” Has Many Interests It has been a long road, and a tough one. for the genial Morton, and now’ that he has reached the crest of the hill, he’s not going to let any one make a fool out of him. "Least oi all,” he addded. "this raft of good-time Charleys w’ho’ve been trailing me around.” Downey has opened a six weeks’ engagement at the New York Paramount at $5,500 a week, but that Is just one of the irons he has in the fire. He runs the Club Delmonico, one of the few surviving night clubs where full dress and a sw’agger are needed for admittance. He makes tw r o or three radio appearances a day on the Columbia chain. He sings for records in spare moments. And as for the tons of mail that flow in, he doesn't even have time to look at the stamps, let alone the contents. Idol of Iloosiers Downey's theme song—the tune which he opens and closes his radio programs—is “Wabash Moon,” a. Kong he wrote himself. It has become one of the big hits. And he said there isn't a day goes by but that he receives a, batch of presents from his admirers in Indiana. One lady sent him a stuffed turkey, another shipped in six handmade scarfs, others send jars of jam, pickled preserves and even sauerkraut. Only ten or twelve years ago Morton Doaney was peddling apples, orange sand confession magazines on a train running between New York and Springfield, Mass. He tried selling phonographs and then insurance. He served as jockey on a donkey engine, but was inclined to excessive sped and lost that job. Then one day he sang before an Elks club in Connecticut and got paid for it. He's Not a Gigolo He started his climb to fame seven or eight years ago and finally got, a job singing with Paul Whiteman's band. He made three movies and after that dropped out of sight. Last December he started singing for the radio, and since then he has won fame. He has no illusions about fame and know's it can't last. So in the meantime he’s laying away the profits. And in proof of his sincerity regarding w’ometi admirers, it may be noted that whenever he sings the song "I'm Just a Gigolo," he says it "He's Just a Gigolo." Subway Naps Arc Urged By United Press NEW YORK. March 20.—Barnard college girls W’ere urged to conserve energy by taking naps on subway trains by Dr. Lillian Gilbreth, organizer of the women’s division of the President’s emergency employment committee.

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Camilla Clark, above, 17-year-old school girl, added further details to serious charges that are piling up against wealthy Laj Angeles men in the instigation of Hollywood's ‘‘love market.” She claims to have been one of the victims of the system which provided girl companions to rich men and accused a man w’ho gave his name to her as "Bill Martin.”

‘AGENCY 1 ARRESTED Man Paid $25 for Job; Does Not Materialize. A "one-man employment agency” was under arrest today after he is alleged to have charged persons $25 to get them jobs. Frank Tomch, alias Louis Saxton, 39, Oneida hotel, was arrested on false pretense and vagrancy charges after George R. Taylor, 618 Russell avenue, said he had given Tomch $25 as "surety bond” to obtain a job for him, but the job did not materialize. PARKS ON RAILROAD. SLEEPS; ‘TEN DAYS’ Missourian "Conies To” Before Judge, but He’s Not Grateful. By United Press LOUISVILLE. March 20.—Thomas Needy, a traveler from Cruthers, Mo., appeared not at all thankful to two officers who appeared in court and said they had found the Missourian in his automobile, parked on a railroad crossing, sound asleep. “It was just another incident, judge,” he informed the court. "It’s a wonder you’re not in a graveyard instead of court,” Judge Starck said, "ten days and $15.” ‘5 DRY RAIDS A NIGHT’ That's New Enforcement Program of Milwaukee Federal Chief. By United Press MILWAUKEE, March 20. Declaring that the prohibition department should work twenty-four houi-s a day “because that's the way the speakeasies and breweries work,” W. Frank Cunningham, deputy federal administrator, has divided his force into day and night shifts with an r-’n->-winced policy of “five raids nightly.”

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