Ruth Etting Says Publicity is Tiring, But Gives Interview to Crimson--"But I Suppose it Must be Done," Crooner Admits

Miss Ruth Etting is a very busy girl according to her manager. In fact, so much so, that he was forced to break three engagements before he could grant a CRIMSON reporter an interview with her. When at last the lady did receive the interviewer in the French room filled with gilded Louis XVI furniture and mirrors, and known as the National Vaudeville Association's Reception Room, she told him all about her life--well, that is almost all.

She was born in Nebraska and lived, there until she was about 16 years old, giving up school because it bored her, she went to art school and became a dress designer.

"I then became a chorus girl, and it was not until two years later that I learned I had a good voice. After hearing me over the radio, the phonograph people asked me to make records. Well, it wasn't long then until Ziegfeld heard me, and put me in his shows."

The CRIMSON interviewer, noting Miss Etting's picture in the Boston newspapers, asked her if she did not tire of continued publicity.

"Yes, it is tiring," she answered, "but then I suppose it must be done. Yesterday I had to have my picture taken selling tickets for the Basket Fund for the Unemployed or something or other. But I dislike most of all the fact that I have to give four shows a day. It becomes so mechanical. When I am in a musical comedy I have to give only one performance a night and I can key myself up to it and give a much better performance."