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Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, crooning, blond, Yale-graduated orchestra leader and radio idol (WEAF) was arrested for speeding on Manhattan Bridge. To the patrolman who reported him came many a letter and telephone call from indignant females of all ages...
...everywhere. He enjoys and has often played jazz. Boston prophets foresee his elevation to a regular conductorship. He planned the Esplanade Concerts for two years, typing innumerable letters, making endless calls. Now that the concerts are a reality, he finds himself-dark, stocky, energetic-something of a public idol. Boston ladies applaud himself as well as his music. When the wind blows across the Charles they draw each other's attention to "Arthur's" locks, gaily ruffled by the breeze...
...with a role in which she could and did show herself superior to Actress Darvas. Outraged, Molnar wrote Mima and The Glass Slipper, both for Actress Darvas. Upshot: a divorce (Molnar v. Fedak) in which Lili Darvas figured as but one of 142 correspondents. Beautiful Darvas became a national idol, Molnar's third wife...
...sentimentalism to sophistication, from rose pink literature to dirty drab, from Pollyanna optimism to the most depressing pessimism, from uplift to iconoclasm, from mediocrity to abnormal eccentricity, from service to rampant individualism and selfishness, from suppressed emotions and inhibitions to unbridled passion and undisciplined thinking, from success as an idol to failure as the chief glory...
...times' sake, and because such victories as were hers were more bitterly earned, Mrs. May Sutton Bundy more than Helen Wills was Wimbledon's idol last week. She, before the enthusiastic eyes of William Tatem Tilden II (who murmured, "It's too good to be true") and to the anguished exhortations of her nine-year-old daughter (the youngest of four), defeated England's hard-hitting Eileen Bennett 3-6, 6-4, 6-4. British newspapers reprinted oldtime photographs taken when Mrs. Bundy, then May Sutton, became Wimbledon's first U. S. champion...