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Show Ansel Child Sues Cold Song Writer YOU'RE A NEW YORK V.'hen a pretty young girl falls in love with a poor but charming married man, helps him get along in the world by loaning him nearly all of $110,000 which she inherits, inher-its, fixes him up so he can get a divorce di-vorce by playing the part of co-respondent, and when he calls her his angel child and lovey duck and writes the loveliest songs about her nnd ' leans up the Broadway cash market with them When all these things happen and t lien, after the divorce is made foolproof, fool-proof, she asks him to marry her, as he has often promised her he would, . nd he refuses Shouldn't it be worth at least $25,-'1)0 $25,-'1)0 of the man's money, now that he as got lots and lots of wampum and ile? Inez Ford, pretty Broadway show rl. thinks so. She has begun suit i Supreme court for $25,000 dam-,'i's dam-,'i's for lireach of promise of mar-;age mar-;age against Benny Davis, author of "Margie." "Angel Child," "Make Believe." Be-lieve." "Sweetheart," and other popular popu-lar hits. What hurts most, Inez savs, is that she was the inspiration. Take "Angel Child," for instance. That was his pet name for Inez, she says, before ana after the real Mrs. Davis staged a raid with detectives on the love nest at 133 West Seventy-ninth Seventy-ninth street and found the Angel Child there with Bonny, "Isn't it the limit?" pleaded Miss Ford as she talked about her suit in her now home at 203 West Fifty-sixth street. "Here I even helped him get the divorce by being named co-respondent. We were happy, and when an old man I'd nursed through a long illness died in Chicago and left me a nice little nest-egg, about $30.(HK), I let Bonny have anything he wanted. The money just made him. The most beautiful words seemed to flow from his lips as he sat and played boalii rae. Oh. It was grand !" |