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...This is going to be no hippodrome," announced Justice Salvatore A. Cotillo of the New York State Supreme Court, when Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee and his estranged wife Fay Webb Vallee appeared in the Justice's Manhattan courtroom. Crooner Vallee & wife were there to settle a three-year legal wrangle, determine whether Mrs. Vallee's weekly allowance should be upped. Chief issues: 1) What is Rudy's income? 2) Was Rudy unfaithful to Fay? 3) Was Fay unfaithful to Rudy...
Witness Edna Ferber has called it "chie" to attend the trial. Enzo Fiermonte declared it a "knock-out," while Dolly Madison of the Young Republicans brought her knitting and completed only three stitches. Clifton Webb called it "heart-breaking" and Jack Benny was assured "this was serious business." Lynn Fontanne thought Hauptmann a handsome young man, while the former Mrs. Jack Dempsey was sorry for him whether he was "guilty or not." Hence, whatever Cleric Burns, the interrupter on Tuesday, tried to say, seemed quite immaterial...
...belong to the Harvard team, which chalked up three goals during the first period. The only Milton goal was made at the beginning of the second period. The summary: HARVARD MILTON Weeks, Nesmith, Hayden, Moore, l.w. r.w., Forbes, Scaife, Greenough, Field Roberts, Mechem, Sleeper, c. c., Stone, Perkins, Hornblower, Webb Cutter, Pope, Eaton, r.w. l.w., Cunningham, Smith, Sourd, Wright Hicks, Allis, l.d. r.d., Fuller Allen, Russell, r.d. l.d., Johnson, Hamiel Morey, g. g., Wilder, Atkins, Taylor, Borland...
Celebrities thus recorded include: Photographer Cecil Beaton in a cocked hat at the feet of a plaster Venus; Walter P. Chrysler Jr. bending over a friend's shoulder; Crooner Lanny Ross about to eat a cheese snap; Dancer Clifton Webb holding the arm of Serge Lifar; Polo Player Laddie Sanford on a raft with his wife. Actress Mary Duncan; Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt honoring LaFayette; Douglas Fairbanks on a nightclub couch; Lawrence Tibbett in a theatre lobby; Doris Duke drinking champagne; Prince Chlodwig Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst drinking champagne; Cartoonist Tony Sarg drinking whiskey; Max Baer putting cold cream...
Finishing a turn in As Thousands Cheer one Manhattan night last winter, plump Dancer Marilyn Miller whirled airily offstage, bumped brutally into her costar, frail Dancer Clifton Webb. Up to her side to berate Dancer Webb leaped Chorusman Chester ("Chet") O'Brien, who was also the show's second assistant stage manager. When it was over. Dancer Webb threatened to quit if O'Brien were not fired, Dancer Miller threatened to quit if O'Brien were fired. Everybody stayed...