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...great business world and the somewhat different, sporting-society world, with a touch of court and politics. Andrew Mellon and Harold S. Vanderbilt, British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay, the Stokes, Astors, Burdens, Hitchcocks and Long Islanders, with a rag tag of art and literature plus Betty Nuthall and Rudy Vallée-and at the root of it a fact: the U. S. polo team won the first match in the international series from England at Meadow Brook...
...aged shadow. Monstrous indeed are the shadows in the Lucky Strike series, almost out of all human proportion. Yet while Camel cigarets have advertised smoking pleasure, while Chesterfield cigarets have maintained that taste is the cigaret's vital quality, while Old Gold cigarets have compared themselves to Rudy Vallée, radio crooner, and many another swift and contemporaneous success, American Tobacco and Lucky Strikes lave been enjoying prosperity in an unprosperous season, have made profit in an unprofitable year...
...word and idea "vagabond"-lazy, casual, and (as he sings it) amorous in a far-off sort of way-has been curiously persistent in Vallee's technique, is almost the Vallee trade-mark-Vallée's vagabondia. His admirers may be surprised to discover from his self-revelations that his life has been anything but lazy, casual, or amorous. He ran away from school at 15, enlisted in the Navy. After that he helped in his father's store, ushered at the village theatre, bought himself a saxophone. Shrewd, he taught himself fine points of technique...
...have done the story and Irving Berlin, with three others, the music. It is a dull, shaky graph of a department store employe's rise to theatrical fame. Mary Eaton's pretty legs support a corner of the plot, which sags whenever legs are not enough. Rudy Vallée and a technicolor ballet have been worked in for specialties. Best shot: Eddie Cantor in an old act from the Ziegfeld Follies...
...Three members of either the first or second Yale crews last year, Captain Hyatt, Mead and Vall, are still in college...