Excerpts from Jack Gordon's entertainment column -Fort Worth Press:




November 1, 1934

LEE MORSE, the Sylvan Club's singing star, probably hung up a world's
record 'tother night when she sang 41 encores on two floor shows.  And that's
SLAYING 'EM!



November 9, 1934

The Sylvan Club is all set for a broad evening. BUDDY FISHER and his
Hollywood Playboys will make their bow on the bandstand with a new floor
show-except for LEE MORSE, our favorite blues singer, who is a holdover.
Stay out lates will miss the not-too-spicy stories of DICK WARE, m.c.



November 12, 1934

LEE MORSE whose wit is as sharp as her voice is blue. [] an over-boisterous
man as probably was never squelched before at the Sylvan Club Friday night.
Miss Morse sang three numbers in invited requests. "Can you sing "Tomorrow",
the man called out going into [] hysterics at her own ill ed "humor".  Sure
and I can sing "After You're Gone." Lee shot back.



November 16, 1934

LEE MORSE and Husband BOB DOWNEY like green grass at their door so have
rented a house in Oak Cliff.The way Sylvan Club customers keep yelling for
more of Lee's songs they'll have grown chickens and a garden before leaving
these parts.



November 26, 1934

The radio laugh of the month-haw!-is on the Dallas announcer who, handling
the Lee Morse broadcast Thursday night, said:  "Ladies and gentlemen, this
program is coming to you from the Sylvan Club, the finest night club in
NORTH FORT WORTH!"  The plug ordinarily reads, "North Texas"



December 13, 1934

RENEE VILLON joined the Sylvan floor show last night with a new dance idea.
Mlle Villon {}her body with green makeup and dances 'neath a green spot.  It
is all very weird and had some of last night's customers scampering for the
bar. A fan dance follows the Rhapsody in Green, done as Mile, performed it
at the Foreign Club, Mexico City, Embassy Club, New Orleans; chez Paree,
Chicago, and other big-time spots. LEE MORSE, croon-yodeling star of the
show, shared the spotlight with NICK SNYDER, modest guitar plunker with
ARLIE SIMMMON'S band. Lee dragged the blushing Nick off the platform to
assist Husband Bob Downey with the accompaniment. Mr. Synder comes from a
musical family.  One brother composed "Kinky Head" featured by the Sylvan
band.  Another leads an orchestra. Nick says he never took a guitar lesson.
Fellow bandsmen believe that, but you can't convince them he hasn't taken a
post graduate course in poker.



December 21, 1934

LEE MORSE, the Sylvan Club's singing star, asks us to spike a story going
the rounds that she is a prude about nudity. It all started when another
Fort Worth newspaper carried a story about a "feud" between Lee and a fan
dancer on the Sylvan show.  The story irked Lee no little. "Anybody who's
worked big-time and in the Follies knows that there comes a time in every
actress's life when she's got to dress and undress when and where she can,"
says Lee. Besides I think nudity is a swell idea since the depression.  We
all ought to go nude and save wear and tear on clothes. "I object to vulgar
exhibitions but not to nudity."



December 22, 1934

The Sylvan Club will bring in a new band and floor show Saturday, Dec. 29.
Lee Morse, the club's singing sensation will remain. New acts will include.
The Collette Sisters, dance team seen in such Broadway shows as "Strike Me
pink," Ziegfield Follies and the Vanities. Daro and Costa, direct form New
York's Casino de Paree. Dorothy Van Alst, Follies girl. Leonard Keller, the
"tone poet" of NBC fame will bring in his 14-piece band.

If you have a phonograph record of "Look What You've Done to Me," Lee Morse
of the Sylvan wants to see you. Five years ago, Miss Morse composed and
recorded the tune.  She didn't publish it. Now admirers are requesting it,
and the songstress can't remember the words.  Nor can she find the record on
sale. C'mon, fellows, let's shake down the attic for Lee.



December 27, 1934

This department has two phonograph discs of "Look What You've Done to Me'
for Lee Morse, the Sylvan's singing star. Miss Morse last week expressed a
desire for the record which she composed and recorded five years ago.
Admirers had asked for the tune.  Lee couldn't remember the words. There was
a piece here about it and around came the records.

December 29, 1934

Lee Morse pulled the Sylvan out of the red.



January 4, 1935

The carpenters will be putting in kennels at the Sylvan Club if the canine
population continues to increase at the night spot on the Pike. Three
pooches, owned by performers, now help make life merry for the back stage
and the kitchen help.  It all started when Lee Morse, star of the show,
received a tan Spitz, gift from husband Bob Downey.  She named him Cecil.and
little Cecil had developed a positive mania for shower baths. Then along
came the Vernons, Evelyn and James, and with them a pup called Two-Step, who
seems to prefer shoes to bones, particularly Evelyn's best dance slippers.
Last Saturday, Mildred and Ruth Collette, dancers, arrived with a
three-pound Chihuahua terrier that answers-sometimes-to the name of San
Antonio.  Ruth keeps him belled so she can find him. Richard Day, director
of the orchestra, owns a German police which he is threatening to move back
stage.just to see what will happen.  In case he does new kennels my not be
needed.



January 7, 1935

Cecil Lively of the Sylvan Club says Lee Morse will be back on the pike in
the spring. The singing star will close a 13-week engagement at the club
tomorrow night, then move on with Husband Bob Downey to the new Olmos Club
at San Antonio. A complete new show comes to the Sylvan on Wednesday night.
The Vernons, dance team, go to Chicago; Dick Ware probably will go to San
Antonio and Renee Villon, the incandescent fan dancer, is booked for a Hot
Springs, Ark. Night spot. Richard Day and band and the Collette Sisters,
remain on the bill.



January 8, 1935

Sylvan Club customers will miss Lee Morse's lightning wit as much as her
yodeling, when she heads for San Antonio after tonight.  No one least of all
Cecil Lively, club manager, knew what she would pull next. Of all the Morse
performances we liked the ways the songstress put a comparatively unknown
Hollywood actress in her place. The "actress" with more airs than a
Panhandle prairie, found herself at the same table with the Sylvan's singing
star at the club one evening. "Oh, Miss Morse," she meowed, "were you ever
on Broadway?"  To the throaty-voiced woman who has written her own ticket on
the stage in recording rooms and on the radio, this was too much for an
answer. Lee Morse jumped up from the table, clutched her frizzled hair and
emitted a blood-curdling screech that must have startled the constabulary at
Arlington.  She then streaked off through the nearest door, and so far as we
can learn has not been since seen by the young lady from Hollywood.



January 25, 1935

LEE MORSE and husband BOB DOWNEY were at the Blackstone Hotel last night.
Miss Morse will sing for the oil big shots at the petroleum Social
Association, Longview, tonight then return here Saturday. The songstress has
been visiting the home folks in Gainesville where she made herself useful
around the house, pitching in and mopping the floors one day. She has an
awful pair of cracked hands to prove it.



February 1, 1935

BOB DOWNEY, shopping for spats, dropped into four men's store in vain today.
"Guess the fellows have just been letting their long undies show during the
depression," says Bob. LEE MORSE was cracking wise again over in Longview
this week where she played a one-night stand at the Club Caricoa. "What do
you think of Longview?" a pretty young thing gushed. "I'm trying to get out
of town now, honey," flipped Lee, "so I can get a long view of it."



February 13, 1935

Jackie, 18-year-old son of LEE MORSE, the blue-yodeler, has taken a job with
the Baker Ice machine Co. here and launched a career. Jackie expects to make
Fort Worth his home-he's looking for rooms and has applied for membership in
the First Christian Church.  Meanwhile, Miss Morse goes to the Metropolitan
Theater, Houston, to open an engagement Friday.  But she and husband Bob
Downey will make Fort Worth the home port, and get back as often as possible
to see Jackie. Jackie went over to Dr. Webb Walker for some spectacles.
When he returned to the Morse suite at the Blackstone, he shouted: 'I'm the
top, I'm the top!" "What do you mean, the top?" queried his mother. "All I
could see was the top row of letters," flipped Jackie.  "For that one,"
screamed Lee, you go to bed without your supper."



March 6, 1935

The Bandwagon, Oklahoma smart sheet still lists LEE MORSE at the Sylvan Club
in its March issue, but alertly omits Lake Como and White City.



March 12, 1935

"How is everything in Cowtown?" query LEE MORSE and BOB DOWNEY from the
Villa Rosa, Houston.  "We sure miss the people there.  Don't know what it is
but the atmosphere of Houston is so entirely different from that of Dallas
and Fort Worth."  Lee is on the Southwestern network 10:15 p.m. Tuesday,
Thursday, Saturday and Sunday.



March 29, 1935

At the Worth Hotel:  LEE MORSE and Husband BOB DOWNEY, back in their
favorite town since the rangers mussed up the Club Villa Rosa, Houston play
spot.



April 2, 1935

There was a reunion at the Sylvan Club Saturday night when Lee Morse, blues
singer, and Husband Bob Downey walked in. Eight years ago, Joe Candullo,
Sylvan maestro, was leading the band at the Club Madrid, Philadelphia. Lee
and Bob were headlining the floor show. One night, Lee and Bob slipped off
and looked up a preacher.  The first person they told was Joe Candullo. Joe
grabbed his baton and led the band into "Here Comes the Bride." Then he
broke the news to the crowd.



April 12, 1935

The Sylvan Club is dickering with LEE MORSE for a return engagement, to
begin tomorrow night.



April 16, 1935

Lee Morse, the blues yodeler, tossed a birthday dinner for Son Jackie at
Gingham Inn Sunday night, then paid her first visit to George Smith's
Casino.  Don't be surprised if Lee becomes regular attraction there.



May 10, 1935

Flash!  Lee Morse, the yodeling gal who did everything to make the Sylvan
Club but nail on the shingles, returns to the pike hot spot Saturday night.



May 11, 1935

LEE MORSE and BOB DOWNEY return to the Sylvan Club tonight.  A gang is sure
to be on hand to welcome back this popular pair.



May 16, 1935

LEE MORSE, the Sylvan Club's singing star, dashed off a new song dedicated
to CECIL LIVELY, club manager. "We All Step Lively for Lively." Thank you,
Miss Morse, for your dedication of a swell number to this department over
the Southwest network last night.



May 17, 1935

Doctors for years have been saying LEE MORSE'S tonsils should come out, but
Lee says nix.  Afraid an operation might cost her that trick yodel.



May 20, 1935

Others who picked the Sylvan Club drove through water near Rush Creek.
Among them was Lee Morse's son, Jackie, out with a party, including Harold
Epps of the Worth.



May 29, 1935

It's a crazy table LEE MORSE, Sylvan singing star, sets in her Janet Court
apartment at noon every day. For Lee and husband Bob Downey who do a 2 a.m.
floor show every morning, 12 o'clock is breakfast time. But for Son Jackie,
18, who drops by from work at the Baker Ice Machine Co., it's time for
lunch.  So you'll find scrambled eggs alongside pork and beans and
frankfurters.  And everybody is happy. The Sylvan apparently has snapped out
of it with Miss Morse back at the mike.  The week-end crowd was the best for
many weeks at the Dallas Pike spot. A new band moves in Saturday.



June 3, 1935

Item on Lee Morse (could not read)



June 17, 1935

Lee Morse, with husband, Bob Downey, is remaining for an indefinite
engagement to the Sylvan's relief.



June 24, 1935

Lee Morse is still the cream of the Sylvan Club's coffee.  Some card, that
gal, I knew she had a son, adolescent age, but I almost knocked a glass of
buttermilk over when I met a great big six-foot boy, nice looking chap, whom
she introduced as "My boy"



June 27, 1935

Lee Morse has had a sore throat all week.  It has worried the Sylvan Club
singer, too.  Last year, she had a serious throat operation in Chicago.  It
set Lee right.  But- "There can be no more operations," the doctor said.



July 1, 1935

LEE MORSE, LIGON SMITH and the entire Sylvan floor show will be on the
program at the Junior Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Texas Hotel
tomorrow.  Occasion:  Ladies' Day.



July 4, 1935

WITH Saturday night off on account of the Ellington dances, LEE MORSE and
BOB DOWNEY of the Sylvan Club floor show will go to the Sylvan Club for a
change.



July 13, 1935

JOHN PRINCE, Sylvan watchman, is Public Hero No. 1 to bob Downey,
piano-playing husband of Lee Morse.  Bob learned late yesterday Prince had
dragged from the flames a small steamer trunk containing his full dress
suit.


Unsigned telegram received at this desk today:

DEAR JACK WAGS ON WEST SEVENTH ST. OPINE SYLVAN CONFLAGRATION CAUSED BY SOME
OF DUKE ELLINGTON'S HOT NOTES LAYING OVER AND CREATING SPONTANEOUS
COMBUSTION OTHERS AVER THAT THE PILE OF HOT CHECKS IN SYLVAN'S CASH BOX
CAUSED THE BLAZE PERSONALLY THINK CAUSE WAS PAIR OF DICE TRYING TO EIGHT."



July 17, 1935

WONDER if Bob Downey, piano-playing husband of Lee Morse, knew Lee was just
fooling when she jabbed him with a table knife at the Junior Chamber of
Commerce luncheon yesterday?



July 25, 1935

JACKIE MORSE, 18-year-old son of the songstress and his attractive girl
friend pulling their nerves together in Lala's after tangling with an
ambulance in front of the spaghetti rendezvous at Sixth and Jones.



August 1, 1935

Jack Horner is putting the finishing touches to his Gingham Inn at Lake
Worth and will toss a formal opening party next Wednesday night.  Dance
space is being doubled.  Tip to Gingham Inngoers:  Try Chef Johnson's
risotto-fried rice to you-and love they neighbor.



August 6, 1935

THE BIGGER and greater Gingham Inn, on the Jacksboro Highway, now twice the
size of old, will have LEE MORSE, BOB DOWNEY and ERNIE STANTON among guests
at its formal opening tomorrow night.  There'll be an orchestra and special
stunts, Jack Horner flashes. Jack knows all the tricks in keeping a crowd
festive, so it should be a big evening for the stepper-outters.



August 8, 1935

JACK KEARNS, composer of "Margie," dropped in from Chicago for the formal
opening of Gingham Inn's breezy new annex last night.  He played piano while
the COLORADO COWBOYS among other guest celebrities sand the tune..clever
ERNIE STANTON panicked the crowd with a take-off on chevalier.LEE MORSE did
her ever-popular "The Farmer's Daughter".The Inn's biggest crowd overflowed
to the lawn.



August 15, 1935

TOM ALFORD, LEE MORSE and BOB DOWNEY now are neighbors at Lake Worth.



August 22, 1935

When LEE MORSE and husband BOB DOWNEY get bored at their lake camp, they
jump over the beds-the place has five on one porch.



August 30, 1935

LEE MORSE, the blues yodeler, will do a Tex Guinan for the Texas Hotel when
that hostelry opens its Rathekeller.  She will serve as combination singer
and official handshaker.



October 11, 1935

KTAT will air LEE MORSE from the Olmos club, San Antonio, from 9 to 9:30
p.m. today.



October 23, 1935

The Smiths had dinner in San Antonio with JACK CRAWFORD, portly band leader,
who now is playing at the Gunter Hotel.  They saw a floor show at
Shadowland.  The Olmus Club has closed. LEE MORSE and BOB DOWNEY, headliners
there, have shifted to Cedar Springs on the Post Rd. near Houston.



November 22, 1935

LEE MORSE, en route from Houston to Tulsa, dropped in at the State for an
hour Wednesday night, took three or four drinks and-the bartenders swear
it-went her way.Husband BOB DOWNEY and two other gentlemen accompanied the
songstress.






Fort Worth Press,
October 9, 1937

LEE MORSE, the blues singer, now at Oklahoma City, may be a Midway Inn
booking for next week-end.  Remember Lee's "Farmer's Daughter" at the old
Sylvan and Blackstone?




Fort Worth Press,
October 15, 1937

LEE MORSE, blues yodeler and Husband BOB DOWNEY have taken over their old
cottage at Lake Worth.  They'll open at Midway Inn Saturday, along with BOB
MILLARD'S band.




Fort Worth Press,
October 18, 1937

LEE MORSE, opened an announced week's engagement at Midway Inn Saturday
night, but did no appear last night.  Singer and club parted when Miss Morse
objected to Band Leader BOB MILLAR being bill above herself in newspaper
ads.Too bad for Midway, because Lee wowed audiences at two shows Saturday
night.




Fort Worth Press,
October 20, 1937

Lee Morse and Midway Inn have buried the hatchet, and this corner is please
to report Miss Morse, now is singing nightly there, at 11 and 1, as
positively non one else can sing, Bob Downey continues as accompanist-and
husband.




Fort Worth Press,
October 25, 1937

Lee Morse and Bob Downey, who broke with Midway Inn last week, go into the
Olmos Club at San Antonio Saturday.  The pair are scheduled to go on the
networks out of Chicago next month, with a finance company as sponsor.




Fort Worth Press,
November 16, 1937

It was LEE MORSE'S last night at Midway Inn.  She had done one show and sat
at a guest table with Husband-Accompanist Bob Downey, and others. "Come on.
Let's do that last show," Miss Morse finally urged.  Meanwhile, though,
Midway Manager Bert Wakefield had called Downey aside. "Honey, there won't
be another show. We're fired. They say we've insulted some guests," Mr.
Downey announced. "Well then," boomed Lee, "What are we waiting for?   Let's
get up and insult the rest of 'em!"