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...technique of arranging musical instruments before a microphone has increased the illusion of reality almost as much as the widened tonal range of most of the modern receiving sets. With many of the earlier loudspeakers, the only sounds possible to their narrow compass were the modulations of the crooner (an express specialization for the radio) or the stridencies of the more African jazz. But dance music is returning to melody, popular singing to full vocal range, and pari passu the more artistic euphonies are coming into their...
...Chicago. Married. Aidan Roark, Irish-born po loist, back on last summer's victorious Western team (TIME, Aug. 21); and Esther Foss Moore, daughter of Massachusetts' onetime Governor Eugene Noble Foss; in Carmel Valley, Calif. Seeking Divorce. Hubert Prior ("Rudy'') Vallée, 32, crooner, bandleader; from Fay Webb Vallée, actress, daughter of Santa Monica, Calif.'s Police Chief Clarence E. Webb. Fay Webb first sought an injunction to restrain her husband from seeking divorce in Mexico. That was denied. Then she sued for separate maintenance, charging misconduct with three women, vicious temper...
...radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby is much more popular else where, partly because his singing has ceased to be affected, partly because he is the only U. S. crooner sufficiently present able and mentally alert to be a successful cinemactor. He plays golf in the 703, wants to write short stories, is incorporated under his real name, Harry Lillis Crosby. His acting shoes contain one and a half-inch "lifts." His great-great-grandfather was one of John Jacob...
...story designed for audiences who share the admiration for Bing Crosby which Miss Davies affects in this picture, it would be unthinkable for Williams' temptation to get the best of him. Miss Davies supplants Lili Yvonne as the lead in the Williams picture. When Temptress Yvonne whisks Crooner Williams away to a Mexican border saloon. Miss Davies pursues and persuades him to return. He is reeling slightly but still able to deliver one more tune, called "Our Big Love Scene...
...publicized Hollywood brawl. Gossip that incidents in the picture resembled incidents in the career of Dancer Ruby Keeler caused Miss Keeler's husband, Mammy Singer Al Jolson, to punch Colyumist Walter Winchell, who suggested the story to Producer Darryl Zanuck (TIME, July 31). Broadway Through a Keyhole shows Crooner Jolson's grounds for fisticuffs were inadequate. The heroine of the picture (Constance Cummings) works at a night club run by a harridan named Tex Kaley (Texas Guinan). Ruby Keeler was once one of Texas Guinan's "little girls," but this parallel would not be enough to make...