Word: downey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...turned out to make the Bennetts, like the Barrymores, a legendary family in the theatre. Barbara, second daughter, was the first to go into the movies, before she became a dancing partner of the late Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes...
...much interested in the June 22 issue with a front-page picture of Morton Downey and the article giving his history. Everything you said about Morton Downey is true and more could be said but why refer to his father as a "day laborer"? It is true that he has an ordinary everyday job as driver of a fire engine in Wallingford. Conn, and that he has brought up a large family on a small income...
There are thousands of people who are interested in Morton Downey's singing because he gets for it $5.000 a night...
There are thousands of people who love Jim Downey because he gets out of bed summer or winter and drives the town ambulance taking injured and sick people to the hospitals in nearby cities: and he does it for nothing...
Sometime when it comes right I would like to see a two or three line article in your magazine praising Jim Downey for the work he has done for the love of humanity for the last ten years...