Mary L. Alleman was born in 1917 in Argos, IN to Hazel B. and Harry E. Alleman. She was the youngest child of four and the couple's third daughter. As a child in the late 1920s, she enjoyed the radio broadcasts and was inspired to become a singer. Mary was a member of the Argos Christian Church and attended Plymouth High School. However, she quit school before graduation.
She was a beautiful blonde haired young lady in search of her dream. She set out for Chicago, IL and had some singing lessons and eventually a radio audition. As a result of the audition, she signed a contract effective through 1936 with the Carlos Molina Orchestra. She took the stage name, "Mary Manners". Soon after, the band would visit Kansas City, MO. In a K.C. hotel where the band was lodging and performing, late on Sunday, September 8, 1935, she was given a note in the lobby by the desk clerk. Ten minutes later, her body was found in the street, after plunging nine floors from her hotel room window.
Mary left two notes in an apparent suicide, according to local police. Police concluded she was not despondent and thought her feelings of inferiority led to her decision to take her life. It was also made known by the authorities that she had taken poison before jumping. One of the notes left in her room was addressed to her parents. In it she states - I don't want to come home a failure, I am taking the only way out and that she'd made a big mistake thinking she ever could be a singer. Bandleader, Carlos Molina, 36, said that her singing was satisfactory. A second note, unaddressed, found in her room simply read "I loved you, loved you very much."
Mary L. Alleman, A.K.A. Mary Manners
was 18 years of age.
She was a beautiful blonde haired young lady in search of her dream. She set out for Chicago, IL and had some singing lessons and eventually a radio audition. As a result of the audition, she signed a contract effective through 1936 with the Carlos Molina Orchestra. She took the stage name, "Mary Manners". Soon after, the band would visit Kansas City, MO. In a K.C. hotel where the band was lodging and performing, late on Sunday, September 8, 1935, she was given a note in the lobby by the desk clerk. Ten minutes later, her body was found in the street, after plunging nine floors from her hotel room window.
Mary left two notes in an apparent suicide, according to local police. Police concluded she was not despondent and thought her feelings of inferiority led to her decision to take her life. It was also made known by the authorities that she had taken poison before jumping. One of the notes left in her room was addressed to her parents. In it she states - I don't want to come home a failure, I am taking the only way out and that she'd made a big mistake thinking she ever could be a singer. Bandleader, Carlos Molina, 36, said that her singing was satisfactory. A second note, unaddressed, found in her room simply read "I loved you, loved you very much."
Mary L. Alleman, A.K.A. Mary Manners
was 18 years of age.
Mary L. Alleman was born in 1917 in Argos, IN to Hazel B. and Harry E. Alleman. She was the youngest child of four and the couple's third daughter. As a child in the late 1920s, she enjoyed the radio broadcasts and was inspired to become a singer. Mary was a member of the Argos Christian Church and attended Plymouth High School. However, she quit school before graduation.
She was a beautiful blonde haired young lady in search of her dream. She set out for Chicago, IL and had some singing lessons and eventually a radio audition. As a result of the audition, she signed a contract effective through 1936 with the Carlos Molina Orchestra. She took the stage name, "Mary Manners". Soon after, the band would visit Kansas City, MO. In a K.C. hotel where the band was lodging and performing, late on Sunday, September 8, 1935, she was given a note in the lobby by the desk clerk. Ten minutes later, her body was found in the street, after plunging nine floors from her hotel room window.
Mary left two notes in an apparent suicide, according to local police. Police concluded she was not despondent and thought her feelings of inferiority led to her decision to take her life. It was also made known by the authorities that she had taken poison before jumping. One of the notes left in her room was addressed to her parents. In it she states - I don't want to come home a failure, I am taking the only way out and that she'd made a big mistake thinking she ever could be a singer. Bandleader, Carlos Molina, 36, said that her singing was satisfactory. A second note, unaddressed, found in her room simply read "I loved you, loved you very much."
Mary L. Alleman, A.K.A. Mary Manners
was 18 years of age.
She was a beautiful blonde haired young lady in search of her dream. She set out for Chicago, IL and had some singing lessons and eventually a radio audition. As a result of the audition, she signed a contract effective through 1936 with the Carlos Molina Orchestra. She took the stage name, "Mary Manners". Soon after, the band would visit Kansas City, MO. In a K.C. hotel where the band was lodging and performing, late on Sunday, September 8, 1935, she was given a note in the lobby by the desk clerk. Ten minutes later, her body was found in the street, after plunging nine floors from her hotel room window.
Mary left two notes in an apparent suicide, according to local police. Police concluded she was not despondent and thought her feelings of inferiority led to her decision to take her life. It was also made known by the authorities that she had taken poison before jumping. One of the notes left in her room was addressed to her parents. In it she states - I don't want to come home a failure, I am taking the only way out and that she'd made a big mistake thinking she ever could be a singer. Bandleader, Carlos Molina, 36, said that her singing was satisfactory. A second note, unaddressed, found in her room simply read "I loved you, loved you very much."
Mary L. Alleman, A.K.A. Mary Manners
was 18 years of age.
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