"Not All Tenors Are Crooners", Says Nagel, Who Refuses To Classify These Artists Under One Head--Censorship Cited

"There is absolutely no reason for the present popular outbreak against crooners," exclaimed Conrad Nagel, film star in an interview last night. "In the first place, to call all tenors who sing popular songs 'crooners' is erroneous. It is distinctly wrong to classify them all under one head, because all of them that are at all advanced in their field are individual and have a particular technique which cannot be well duplicated. Crooning is an art, and should be recognized as such. Young America loves to build up an idol, making it far greater than it deserves, and then with equal fickleness tearing it down with all the savagery of an enraged chipmunk. I have known many men who 'croon' who are as fine and good friends as one could wish--Downey, Vallee, Colombo, and others."

As the reviewer first approached, Mr. Nagel said in one breath, "My pet aversions are sweetened cornbread and night clubs, now what do you want to know?" The actor gave a talk on Tuesday on censorship, an address which came in for a share of criticism during the interview. "If censors are sincere in their desire to eradicate filth." Nagel remarked, "they will direct their efforts to all sources of filth. The censors now spend most of their time getting their names in the papers by either attacking the movies or the stage. This produces an effect upon the public which is far from desirable. All one has to do now to see or read the most execrable pornography is to go to any newsstand and buy one of the cheaper lurid magazines. There are literally hundreds of such magazines being published at the present time, yet no apparent effort is being made to curb the ever-increasing outflow. Some of the magazines have the grace to hide under the name of 'fine arts', but others of the more recent type come out bluntly and freely for 'Filth, and lots of it'.