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...richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile. Leo Reisman, another pioneer, is on the wane. The Lombardo band persists in "flabbing" but the public likes it. Two years ago dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved an unexpected showman, smart enough in radio to find new talent, provide a skillful frame. Most "hot" jazz fans still regard black Duke Ellington as the greatest of jazz orchestra leaders. Benny Goodman is currently...
...songs in Manhattan. Songs became hits then in the city's lowest dives. Publishers made the rounds themselves, bought drinks for the performers, distributed chorus sheets among the customers. Edward B. Marks is still publishing songs at 62, as acute to the value of a plug by Rudy Vallée as he was to one by Lottie Gilson, the curvey "Little Magnet,'' who in the 1890s drew tears each night at Tony Pastor's on 14th Street. Fortnight ago Edward B. Marks published a song history of the last 40 years, a book as shrewd...
...veteran, mining engineer; in 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 months ago all unbeknownst to themselves three little pigs turned song-pluggers. Their behavior was revolutionary so far as the song industry was concerned. Song-plugging had been left before to such shrewd and experienced performers as Rudy Vallée, Al Jolson, Helen Morgan. The three little pigs were neither shrewd nor experienced. They were pink and new-looking with pudgy behinds and ridiculous tails. Two were so imprudent that they built their houses of straws and sticks, fiddled and danced and tootled on the flute all day, mocking their serious pig-brother who built a brick house...
...formal winter concert season. In the summer, U. S. jazz bands go to Europe to demonstrate in music halls and night clubs their country's one & only original contribution to music. Europe in the past few summers has heard smooth, suave jazz played by Paul Whiteman, Rudy Vallèe, Guy Lombardo. It has also heard Negro syncopators who scorn sweet stereotype melodies and easy orthodox rhythms. But this summer Europeans will have a chance to hear hot, pulsing jazz played as they never have heard it before. Last week on the S. S. Olympic Negro Edward Kennedy...