Word: valles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...lost." At the Wu Hu International House a queer gathering has assembled to bid for the U. S. rights to a contraption called the radioscope, invented by a palsied Chinese. From time to time the inventor gives demonstrations of his machine: they show such radio folk as Rudy Vallée, Stoop-nagle & Budd, a wretched urchin called Baby Rose Marie performing their specialties. Miss Joyce is on hand looking, naturally, for a millionaire. A young employe of American Electric Co. (Stuart Erwin) is accused of having measles, causes the International House to be placed in quarantine. He finally manages...
Because great musicians, like great authors, lack the now necessary gift of self-exploitation, the genius of those mentioned above today lies buried beneath the sugar-&-water slop of Vall...