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University-"Bring 'em Back Alive." An excellent jungle picture with all the African noises made in a New York studio. Also "Crooner," Laurel and Hardy feature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOARDS AND BILLBOARDS | 10/29/1932 | See Source »

...patter-song "I've Got a Little List" to include the more recent nuisances. Even in Gilbert's day this song was progressively altered to include the passing parade of follies, such as the "scorching bicyclist" and the "lovely suffragist; so that for his inclusion of the "megaphonic crooner" and the "prohibitionist," Mr. Moulan may claim traditional carte-blanche--indeed, D'Oyly-Carte--blanche...

Author: By G. G. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/13/1932 | See Source »

...Last spring President Hoover asked Crooner Rudy Vallée for a "good song." Last month Poet Christopher Morley revealed that what the President thought the country needed was a "great poem." Last week President Hoover had sent greetings to oldtime Funnymen Weber & Fields on their Golden Jubilee, telling them that what the country needed was "a resoundingly good new joke." ¶Roscoe Conkling Simmons. Chicago Negro who seconded the Hoover renomination in June, led to the White House 150 representatives of the "Republican Joint National Planning Committee to Get out the Negro Vote," spread them out on the south...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Opener | 10/10/1932 | See Source »

Reconciled. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallée, crooner; and Fay Webb Vallée. At midnight of her first day in Reno, Mrs. Vallée telephoned "many many minutes" to her husband in Atlantic City. Next day she said: "I was just a little fool. . . . We love each other more than ever now." He exhibited to reporters a telegram: "I will love only you always." Sued for Divorce. By Mrs. Julia Davis Adams, daughter of famed Democrat John William Davis: Boston Socialite William McMillan Adams, who has been U. S. Rubber Co.'s representative in Denmark. Died. Professor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 19, 1932 | 9/19/1932 | See Source »

Separated. Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooner, orchestra leader; and Fay Webb Vallee, daughter of Santa Monica's police chief. Reason: incompatibility...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 12, 1932 | 9/12/1932 | See Source »

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