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Married. Rudy Vallée, 29, redheaded, crooning orchestra leader; and Fay Webb, 23, slender, beauteous, brunette daughter of Chief of Police Clarence Webb of Santa Monica, Calif.; secretly; in West Orange, N. J. In 1928 Crooner Vallée was married for three weeks to a Mrs. Leonie Cauchois McCoy. He took Mrs. Vallee No. 2 to live in a six-room apartment at No. 55 Central Park West, Manhattan. Two days after the wedding they gave a press reception. Excerpts...
...Played in the current Follies by Crooner Harry Richman...
...body of Frank Marco, alias Callahan, gunman, hijacker, was found in a midtown gutter. He was suspected of killing Tony Lombardo, one-time head of Chicago's Unione Siciliano. Gangster Marco was shot seven times, his head hacked with a meat cleaver. His wife Yvonne, once married to Crooner Harry Richman (onetime suitor of Cinemactress Clara Bow), disappeared when police stupidly notified her by telephone of Gangster Marco's demise. ¶Three armed robbers entered a 5th Avenue jeweler's office, took $8,000 worth of diamonds, then, frightened, fled precipitately. An alarm brought 100 policemen...
...Last week James Severy Angier, Harvard freshman, son of Yale's onetime Dean of Freshmen Roswell Parker Angier, was suspended for his part in grape-fruiting Crooner Rudy Vallée at a Boston theatre last month...
Said Blues-Crooner Libby Holman, 24, to a Manhattan newsgatherer: "While a girl's young and voluptuous she can't help but be adored. . . . Old age is the problem. Here's my program. Five more years of the theatre - no more - I'll play big-time dramatic rôles. Right now I'm coaching for L'Aiglon, and I'm flirting with Camille. In five years I hope to have enough money saved up to give me a sure income of $15,000 a year. I'll go to France...