Indianapolis Times, Volume 45, Number 4, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 May 1933 — Page 7

MAY 16, 1933

M’NUTT MAKES MARK AT UNIVERSITY

Ranks High in Classes and Is Leader in Student Activities

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This is Ihp second of a series of stories on Hi- life and activities of Governor Paul N McNutt. BY ARCH STEINEL Times Staff Writer ‘ A CHOKE-COLLARED “freshie' stopped from a train in Bloomington, Incl., on a fall day in 1903. His cold eyes were warmed by greetings from a group of turtleneck sweatcred youths—yes, they wore them then—hallooing, “McNutt! Are you McNutt from Martinsville?" The “freshie” softened. His eyes replied with a vocal “Yes.” One Beta Theta Pi grabbed his valise, others grabbed his arm, he YlB Vr.-,.i,ci,u. m Nnurns or amazing new FEATURES THIS YEAR, including PRINCESS MU KAUN, Royal Padaung GIRAFFE-NECK WOMAN • FROM BURMA POSITIVELY APPEARING IN MAIN PERFORMANCES OF THE RIG SHOW TWICE DAILY: 2 & 8 P.M. Doors Open at 147 Downtown tiokor salo riivus day at tTnypool hotel drug store. Children under 12— 2T>c WHERE BIG riCTCRES I’LAF /oiissN/'dßfc, /BEFOREV Nancy Carrot!—Paul I.iikas Frank Morgan—Gloria Stuart Jrm, STARTING FRIDAY I is the word for this joyous, exhilarating, roguish romance with music. / JANET CAYNOR HENRY NEIGHBORHOOD THEATERS Talbot at ??ssd ■ Pli ” rJLrJftMJH K amll >\ll e “SIGN OF THE C ROSS” ifftMtil" s”? 17 •* Tracy “PRIVATE JONES ’ "THAT'S MY BOY” E Collar? at Voble Kamilv Nile I re tracy “PRIVATE JONES”

was ushered, as regally as years later—when he took the part of “King of France” in a college play—into a town carriage. Paul Vorhies McNutt had come to college—lndiana university. He came with the highest grades of his class at the Martinsville high school. His great uncle, Cyrus McNutt, was dean of the law school “way back when.” The uncle's son had been professor of law at the school, too. Here was a fraternity prize to be nourished and paddled and hazed no more than the initiations compelled! And with the “giddap” to horses of the carriage that day, the career of Governor Paul V. McNutt rolled not only hillward toward the university camous, but also toward the deanship of the law school. n tt tt I" 7'ROSK” M’NUTT was following his own natural bent in taking up the study of law and cabbaging his father’s brief case for use at university lectures. Judge John C. McNutt, former appellate jurist of the state, had not coerced his son into becoming the proverbial wood-chip. MOTION PICTURES "NOW PLAYBKG UsTdaT 1 P. Mi to 11 P. 31. Continuous §THU YEAR’S BEST FILM! MAE&CHfN ih UNIFORM AN UNUSUAL LOVE STORY FIRST CHOICE OF N. Y. HerakJ-TribwM N. Y. Times N. Y. WorUFTckgcam Chicago American ami other (catling U. S. papers in their lots of the year's lObcs: pictures DON’T MISS IT!! Says W alter Winch ell: It’s the Dost Pieture 1 Ever Saw ... iADULTS, aHc KIDDIES, 10c" STARTING WEDNESDAY World's 3f.ost Sensational Play “WHITE CARGO” 25c TO 6 P.M. teT/ LAST 3 DAYS The Thrill HJt of 1933! “HELL BELOV/" with Rob’t. Montgomery Walter Huston—Madge Evan* A Metrn-GoMwyn-Mayer Picture SntrtS Marion DAVIES in a comedy romane* ” with songs and music. i AMUSEMENTS m&EEas* >VJ BUDDY KANE i wlN© A CAST 0F m 40 people4o' li'ni'i 111

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Upper Left—“ Fielder” McNutt, on the freshman baseball squad at Indiana univarsity. Upper Center—The Indiana law school, where the Governor learned Blackstone, became professor, and later dean. Upper Right—McNutt, the college graduate. Lower Left—As he looked when he worked during a vacation as head clerk of a hotel. • Lower Center—A scene from “Babette,” I. U. play, directed by McNutt. He is shown at extreme left. Lower Right—“ Collegian” McNutt and the daughter of General Lawton, of Spanish-American and Indian war fame, on the I. U. campus.

He was as pleased at the decision as a baker would be at turning out a tart maker. “But we let him decide,” said the judge, in a reminiscent mood at his Martinsville home. The judge is a visionary as well as practical-minded attorney. He sees fatalism working its canny way in behalf of his “Paul.” The choke-collared “freshie” went to work. His six foot height brought him friends. He dominated campus and fraternity meetings. His cool and calculating manner of knowing what to do and when best to do it brought him honors. His scholastic standing. con-( tinual digging on assigned sub-' jects, brought approbation from professors and acclaim from the university’s intellectuals. a a it RIND” was hurled at him by V_Jthe lackadaisical ones, but he flung it back at them by trying out for the freshman baseball squad. He made the team. First base was his forte. Co-eds eyed him and his “roached-back” black hair. On the sly, poems were written in note books and passed from femOn the Stagp—fl BIG HITS! J 1 EDDIE STANLEY and LYRIC BAND I HARRIS TWINS & LORETTA ;l PABLO & CO.—DO-DO l FAMOrS CARLA TORNET GiRLd I H Thoir Latest Comedy Sensation SIAM SUMMERVILLE ? anil ZASU PITTS in ‘ OCT ALL NIGHT" MOTION PICTURES A Now Playing 1 0 7 ACT CARNIVAL ft 1 OF FUN!! IHeadlined by O NICK LUCAS And 6 Other Big Acts 4 HI —On Screen— ES “From Hell to HEAVEN” Carole Lombard— 25c Jack Oakie Tltl * L -1 40c After • =6OS!I= t' All Laughing at Ourselves. sim PALL LUKAS—LORETTA TOCXG

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inine hand to hand, raving over his locks as “black as the blackthorn tree.” McNutt, the collegian, was not interested greatly. “Women are nice,” he would say to his mother on vacations.” but why do they always want one to go with one girl? No paragon, he made college enemies just as he did in later political life. “When you can’t buck a man, yen might as well go along with him,” is the appraisal of one college alumnus. I. U. politics, campus elections, gave him his groundwork for organization. The coterie of fraternity politicians flocked to him naturally. They paved the way and he led them as, in later days, legionnaires smoothed ground for his boldest moves upward in the American Legion. tt it tt ‘"V TEW deal” was nothing but In a poker game phrase back in those mauve days of 1912 and 1913 at Indiana university. But in a description of Strut and Fret, a dramatic organization which McNutt headed at the university, the Governor of today stressed that his own presidency had given the university a “new regime.” “Strut and Fret adopted a broader policy and a larger field of endeavor was entered in a single year than in all subsequent years of activity,” McNutt said. “The membership of the club HAS BEEN INCREASED TO FIFTY. The motto of Strut and Fret under the NEW REGIME has become to produce the best for Indiana.” In the 1913 Arbutus, yearbook, the campus wits lampooned McNutt’s dramatic club with, “Strut and Fret is a political organization with dramatics as a side issue. It is composed chiefly of an official badge, a couple of officers, an Arbutus picture, and a mass of student publicity. “Realism is cherished sacredly by the management. A youth of 17 in the first act grows a full beard and long hair, but becomes bald and toothless by the time the curtain falls," scoffed the college wags in print. a a tt M’NUTT became senior class president. As stage director of Strut and Fret, he took the leading role in “Quality Street,” by J. M. Barrie, and played the King of France in all solemnity in “Babette,” a seventeenth century drama. Some forecast the stage would take him away from Blackstone. But the man McNutt built poise, delivery and ease for his later years of traveling miles upon miles on speaking engagements in and out of the Legion and law school. The stuaent union captured his leadership. Phi. Beta Kappa's key, the smart of smarts in educational and scholastic honors, graced his watch chain. Phi Delta Phi and the Order of the Coif, other scholastic fraternities, came easy. Nineteen thirteen! Cap and gown worn by a lithe, lean, sixfooter who’d weigh-in at the gym at 145 pounds and who strutted in the processional of graduation that year. And as the warm face of a

mother watched her only son take his sheepskin, she might have been noticed to cringe with the thrill. a a tt O IMPLY, with only the halting verve that a mother can give, Mrs. McNutt places it as “the moment” in the life of her son. The father’s sun shone at the. birth of one to carry on his name. But in that Indiana university auditorium that day Mrs. McNutt was swept high in pride and then washed down to a beach of helplessness. “I could guide his footsteps no more. My job was done. I can not help him now in the things he faces as Governor of Indiana,” she says as she sits in her straight-backed chair at her Martinsville home and smoothes her dress. Full-fledged lawyer, with the passing of the state bar examination, McNutt was not content with his Indiana training. He went to Harvard law school. But Harvard and Boston were expensive and McNutt, not satisfied to permit the checks from his father to ease the way, became United Press correspondent at Harvard and in Boston. tt a tt THOSE were the days when the Boston Braves shunned the confines of the moldy National League cellar. Babe Ruth was a pitcher then instead of His Highness of Home Runs. The Boston Red Sox owned the Bambino. McNutt had been correspondent at Bloomington for an Indianapolis paper. “Something I’m not very proud of now,” he says. But the experience and his knowledge of the diamond game ripened him for a job in the press-coop at the world series of 1914. 1915 and 1916. The news writing, slangy jargon of the sports writer, humanized his academic papers at law school and later verbiage at Legion hurrahs. The Harvard Legal Aid Union elected him president. In 1916 he received his degree from Harvard. The spring of that year the town of Martinsville awoke one day to anew law firm sign, McNutt & McNutt. His father, busy in politics and serving as judge on the appellate bench, left the legal affairs in the hands of Paul. a tt tt A WOMAN weary of her husband and seeking a divorce decree was his first case. The husband contested it. It was a typical sitting-room, dog-fight in court. McNutt won. Then destiny, luck, or what-have-you stepped in again. Indiana university's law school dean became ill. They wanted a professor for his classes. The job was offered to McNutt. The stripling of the bar counseled with his parents. War blasts resounded in newspaper banner lines, over saloon growlers. The council of family was short. A son dominated. A father and mother listened to: ’ Dad and Mother. I’m taking this job. We’ll be going to war soon and I’ll go. This will be good experience when I come back.’ He donned the smock of professorship. Outside a window* at his alma mater he could hear the "right-face” tramp of a company of embryo soldiers. And the flags waved lustily, tauntingly In the breeze. Next—McNutt, the Colonel, and His War Bride. ROOM RENTED—Cost only 65 cents for four-day ad. The ad was placed by Mrs. R. G. Cooper last Saturday.

L. S. AYRES & CO. \\AV - 11[! OV-' Why Didn't Mother J Learn About Babies from Ayres’? J #

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