The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-20

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This was the life, said Max
Hollywood hadn't beckoned to Make
as yet, but he went to Hollywood,
regardless. He bought gold Lined
slave bracelets for his arm and mar
celed his naturally curly, black
hair. He put more grease on his
locks than Rudolph Valentino used
to do.
Forty suits at time were not too
many for Make. And his cars must
have sixteen cylinders and very
gaudy paint He was big shot on
the Pacific coast now and the east
was beginning to perk up its ears.
Dorothy Dunbar had divorced him
so his Don Juan tendencies were
unhampered. Make started to play
the feminine field.
NEAX'S tangled finances may
N1 have had something to do
with all of this. Money did him no
good. j. Hamilton Lorimer, his one
time manager, was and still is suing
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ton of Maxs contract. Girls-girls,
girls galore we're suing him for
various grievances concerning his
love life. Many said Make would
arouse their heart throbS and then
go away. Max figured he might as
well have fun with what money he
could get his hands on.
Some of the girls collected. Olive
Beck, his youthful Sweetheart in
Livermore, the old home town, had
the foresight to preserve certain
letters written by Make. Olive was
a pip" according to her pictures in
the newspapers. So were the letters
"pips." Make paid this suit before
it got to court. Other girls have
suits pending against him. The
plaintiffs are scattered from coast
to coast and include a girl who
earns her living on a flying trapeze.
Make established two legal de-
partments-one to take care of
managerial suits and another was
the ladies auxiliary. This depart
ment is supposed to get Make off
cheaply as possible when the heart
affairs cool. Both departments are
very busy.
NEAX'S technique with the fair
1V1 sex is terrific. 1t is either very
good or very bad, according to the
way you look at it. For instance,
there is the Sally Rand episode.
Sally was putting on a premier of
her fan dance for newspaper men in
a San Francisco hotel room. The
lame and the. halt and all but the
blind of journalism were there. So
was Max. No one knew how he got
in, but no one volunteered to try
and put him out.
Festivities were at their highest
and Sallys feathers were flying mer-
rily when Max suddenly produced a
telegram he said proved he was en-
gagged to Miss Edna Durham, New
York socialite. Many of the re-
porters abandoned Sally to flash the
word to New York. Every one was
including Miss Durham,
who was, for the most part frigid.
but dropped a few pertinent re-
marks as to what she thought of
Make. What she thought wasn't
She later married Phil
Plant, multi millionaire divorced
husband of Constance Bennett.
In mulling over the situation, the
press agreed that Make probably
pulled faux paus in saying he was
to marry Socialite while watching
another young lady execute a fan
dance.
A BOUT this time, Baer was
L n training to fight Levinsky. |
Jack Sharkey had won the title |
from Max Schmeling and Madison
Square Garden politics prevented a
rematch of the German and Shar- |
key. Jack Dempsey stepped in and |
matched Baer with Schmeling. 1t
was the big break for Baer.
New York had considered Baer a
clown after he was beaten by
Tommy Loughran and in his first |
fight with Shaaf. Baer turned semi |