Indianapolis Times, Volume 47, Number 265, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 January 1936 — Page 2

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WRITERS REAP RICH HARVEST ON JONG HIT Trio Makes $30,000 So Far on ‘The Music Goes ’Round and Around.’ Js>/ f'nited Prrtt NEW YORK, Jan. 14—The current psychopathic idiocy, “The Music Goes 'Round and Around.” still was revolving today and each turn poured money into the pockets of the trio that pleads guilty to having written it. Mike Riley, whose "gadget” gave birth to the piece; Eddie Farlej, who thought it would be a sensation and took the trouble to copyright it. and Red Hodgson, a lyric writer, figure they have made SIO,OOO each on the song to date. That’s only a start, however, and they expect really to "clean up"— to use their own expression—since all of New York and most of the United States and a good many foreign countries still are going “down and around.” To back up their optimistic outlook they have the following point-wit,h-pride facts: 1— The Paramount theater, where they are appearing currently, is having the best run since a Mae West picture opened there three years ago. 2 Sunday’s matinee at. the Paramount drew the largest matinee crowd in four years. 3 Sales of sheet music have gone beyond 450.000, exceeding any sale record of recent years. 4On one day 102.C0C copies of the sheet music were sold. This is an all-time high for a single day. 5 Three motion picture companies are dickering for the appearance of the orchestra which features Rilej and Farley, and they must give- up their work at the Onyx night club because they have so many other offers. Tells How Song Started You’ll have to accept Riley’s account of how the song started be- j cause, as he says, he's stuck with j the tale. One night he was playing away in the Onyx club on a strange horn he had picked up in a Pittsburgh j pawn shop. It cost him $3. He’d : bought It because he'd never seen anything like it. He still calls it j “that gadget.” The horn is sort of a “mongrel tuba,” he said. "One of those sweet young things,” Riley related today, "came up to me with a lot of baby talk. She was pretty drunk—no. you better say she was a ‘bit high.’ ” The conversation went as follows; "Is that thing hard to play?” j asked the sweet young thing. “Oh, no,” answered Riley, “you just sing in It. You blow in here— ; there rand he pointed to the music exit). You push down this middle valve here and th; music goes down and around.” Farley Gets Idea Firley thought the tipsy girl’s questions and his partner's answers haW the basis of a song hit and that’s how the music started going down and around. Riley, a sandy-haired, sharp- I nosed young Brooklyn musician, j and Farley are going “round and abound themselves." No longer than a year ago they practically were on their uppers. “We’d cross the street,” Riley explained, "to avoid our friends. We were broke, jobless and we didn’t j like to have people sympathizing | with us.” The three authors of the song hit split all earnings equally. They get 3 cents on each copy of sheet music sold. Six on each orchestration and 33 1-3 per cent of the proceeds from the sale of records. The Select Music Publishing Company claims "Round and Around” to be the biggest smash j since "Yes. We Have No Bananas.” ! ‘ Ordinarily,” said Miss Sally j Dluckstein. of the music company, "we are well pleased when we have j a day when we make 10.000 sales on ! any single song. Contrast that with ! a day when you sell 102,000 copies.” I Refused to Change Words* Riley revealed that the publishers were not satisfied with the words at first. “Farley and I told the publishers that the song had gone big at the Onyx and if it would not go the way it was why, then, to hell with it.” Things were going “Round and j Around” during the interview in the I dressing room occupied by Riley and Farley. Phones rang constantly, messenger boys brought in messages of i congratulations and Columbia stu- i dios, of Hollywood, was taking ex- ! perimAntal pictures of Riley’s ! strange tuba. "And.” said Riley, munching a hamburger sandwich, "Don’t forget j this. Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt 1 wore a ‘Round and Around’ necklace, made of paper clips, at that big social-doings Saturday.” REP. MEAD TO SPEAK TO LETTER CARRIERS Rural Group to Hear Head of Postoffice Committee. Rep. James Mead, Buffalo. N. Y.. chairman of the House Postoffice Committee, Is to speak at the seventeenth annual convention of the Indiana Federation of Rural Letter Carriers Feb. 22 in the Washington. Other speakers are to include Jesse C. Donaldson, deputy second assistant to the Postmaster General; Postmaster Adolph Seidensticker. Indianapolis, and George F. Klinker, j Lafayette, National Federation of Rural Letter Carriers president. \ The ladies’ auxiliary also is to : hold its annual meeting that date ; in the Washington. Mrs. George Slavens, Waveland, is auxiliary president. - - - RITES FOR MERCHANT: Services Are to Be Held Today for Joseph Allen Sr. Timet Special GREENCASTLE. Ind., Jan. 14. Funeral services were to be con- ; ducted here today for Joseph P. i Allen Sr„ retired merchant whose i death occurred Sunday. Mr. Allen. ! who was 83. was a lifelong member j of the Methodist Church and served iiiiny years as a director of the Indianapolis Methodist Hospital. He is survived by the widow, a son, Joseph Jr, and a brother, H. C. Allen.

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INSANE KILLER OF LAWYER IS TO FACE TRIAL Aged Chicago Man Who Tried to Kill Judge Held on Murder Count. Bp United Pres* CHICAGO, Jan. 14. Although pronounced insane by an alienist, John W. Keogh, 72, who shot and killed an attorney and fired three shots at a circuit judge in a courtroom, will t>e tried for murder, the state's attorney's office said today. Dr. Francis J. Gerty, medical director of the county psychopathic hospital, said Keogh is suffering irom senility and paranoia. His mania, the alienist said, took the form of an obsession for legislative reapportionment in Illinois, a cause

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for which he has worked for several years. Assistant State’s Attorney Charles 8. Dougherty said he would seek an indictment and trial so that Keogh could be committed to a state psychiatric institution by a criminal court. In his cell, Keogh said he killed Attorney Christopher G. Kinney, 54, “to ballyhoo” his contention that the Illinois Supreme Court is an illegal agency. Judge John Prystalski escaped death by dropping to the floor behind his bench. The shooting occurred yesterday alter Judge Prystalski had ruled against Keogh in a foreclosure suit. Although he is not a member of the bar, Keogh had acted as his own attorney in numerous court actions. GAUSE HEADS LAWYERS New President of City Legal Body Takes Office Today. Harry L. Gause was to be installed as president of the Lawyers Association of Indianapolis and was to announce his committee appointments this noon at the Washington. Annual reports also are to be presented.

PURDUE ROAD SCHOOL WILL OPENMONDAY All Phases of Construction and Maintenance to Be Discussed. Timet Special LAFAYETTE. Jan. 14.—A1l phases of road construction and maintenance are to be discussed during a five-day course marking the twenty-second annual Purdue Road School at the university campus, starting Monday, Jan. 20 and continuing through Friday, Jan. 24. A program, outlined today by the chairman in charge, Prof. Ben H. Petty, reveals the annual meeting as one of the most diversified in the school’s history. Members of the Indiana State Highway Commission and five allied organizations

are to form the bulk of an attendance expected to exceed 300. General and sectional sessions are scheduled, bringing together Indiana's foremost authorities on highway problems. Organized groups and officers who sire to participate in the yearly school include the following: State Highway Commission— James D. Adams, chairman; Evan B. Stotsenburg. John W. Wheeler and M. R. Keefe, chief engineer. Bloemker on Program. County Surveyors’ and County Engineers’ Association John A. Kelley, La Porte, president; John A. Booe, Newport, vice president; Herbert H. Bloemker, Indianapolis, secretary, and William M. Sorrell, Newcastle. County Road Supervisors’ Association—Charles K. Knowles. Mount Vernon, president; O. E. Helvie, Muncie, vice president; Glen Arbaugh, Portland, secretary-treas-urer. County Commissioners’ Association —Clarence Roy, Fort Wayne, president; O. J. Kibby, Lebanon, and John Purvis, Greensburg, vice presidents; James A. Slane, West Lafayette, secretary-treasurer. Highway Materials and Equip-

ment Association—C. Dana Ward, president; Arthur R. Lacey, vice president, and Dorsey Allison, treasurer, all of Indianapolis, and Walter O’NeaU, CrawfordsvUle, secretary'. Ward Heads Material Group Indiana Highway Constructor, Inc. —Robert E. O'Connor, Fort Wayne, president; Edward F. Smith. Indianapolis, vice president; Robert H. King. Danville, secretary-treas-

DANCER AHEAD! for those MWHO NEGLECTED THEIR EYES! T TEED those danger signals of failing evesight! A little precaution NOW—having your eyes examined, today—will keep you safely along the way of better vision. _ 137 WEST WASHINGTON STKKET

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urer. and W. M. Holland, executive secretary. WPA Headquarters Here Regional offices of the Works Progress Administration have been moved from Columbus, 0.. to the fourth floor of Indiana WPA headquarters. 217 N. £enate-av. Wayne Coy. state and regional director, announced today.