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...Vallee began the interview with come remarks concerning his days at Yale when he and Peter Arno were to other there in the same class. But the rend of the conversation soon turned to his relations with his large public about which he talked with extreme frankness. He refused to discuss what he thought to be the secret of his popularity on the grounds that he felt that as an artist he should not discuss that side of his personality. He added that he spoke very openly on that subject in his "Vagabond Dreams Come True", a work from...
...Pennington, Ted Waring & Pennsylvanians, Charles King, Marie Cahill, Richard Carle, Clayton, Jackson & Durante and blonde Frances Williams-not to be confused with blonde Hope Williams, who is also in the cast. The songs and lyrics were written by Yaleman Cole Porter, the scenery de-signed by Yaleman Peter Arno. Unfortunately, there are so many stars in the show that most of them do not appear as often as the audience might wish. Dancer Ann Pennington has only two small numbers. Hope Williams, appearing for the first time in musicomedy, sings but one song. But svelte Frances Williams ably croons...
...PETER ARNO'S HULLABALOO-Peter Arno-Liveright ($3).* Imaginary characters are harder to create, oftener still-born than their flesh-&-blood brothers. In a lifetime of creative endeavor, few artists or writers succeed in making one character come alive for longer than it takes to read the book, see the picture. Artist Arno's pictured people are at the opposite pole from immortality, but at least two of them have already had a life of their own: the late famed Whoops Sisters, who appeared four years ago in Manhattan's New Yorker. These two disreputable old harridans...
...easiest to sell. This explains the present popularity of "N. by E." and "Moby Dick" which have been made so desirable by Rockwell Kent's fine illustrations. A survey of Cambridge bookstores also discloses the Harvard man's predilection for the sophisticated brand of humor displayed by Peter Arno in his "Hullabaloo" and the same thing by other artists in the "Third New Yorker Album." Those desiring more substantial reading are now concentrating on "Charles W. Eliot" by Henry James and on such bulky tomes as Priestley's "Angel Pavement" and Arnold Bennett's "Imperial Palace...
...became known that Artist Peter Arno (The New Yorker), having designed the sets for a revue called The New Yorkers, was denied admission to the New York Scenic Artists Union. His designs had to be redrawn by someone else before the scenery could be constructed...